Blossom’s Mayim Bialik Reluctant To Classify Faith And Vegan Diet
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 7th, 2009 in Actresses.
Mayim Bialik entertained adolescents in the early 90s on the NBC sitcom, Blossom, with wild looking vintage store outfits, frank discussions about issues like puberty, and a recovering drug addict brother named Joey with an obsessive tendency to use his catch phrase, “Whoa,” one time too many.
Mayim is all grown up now, with a PhD in neuroscience (read about her work on Prader-Willi syndrome) and quite active with her Jewish faith and in the Jewish community.
She recently interviewed with Jewcy.com, where she admitted it’s hard to classify herself, both faithwise and diet.
“I’m hesitant to label myself or call myself Orthodox because people will be like, “Celebrity Mayim Bialik says she does X, but I saw her doing Y” – I guess, to be safe, I would say I’m Conservative, but in reality, I’d say Conservadox. But my husband and I have definitely increased our observance over the years, and we’re always trying to grow.”
“We kinda do the Big Three [Shabbos, keeping kosher, and family purity], but it’s hard. I mean, it’s hard for everyone to classify themselves, but it’s a whole new level of hard when people are watching you. Like, I pretty much eat a vegan diet, but I eat eggs if they’re in things. What I say is, I eat a mostly vegan diet, and that’s kind of how it is with Judaism. We keep Shabbos, we keep kosher, and I don’t know if people want to hear about the Mikveh, but, um, yeah.”
Continue reading the entire interview with Mayim at jewcy.com.
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May 7th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Same reason I never call myself a vegan in front of anyone. While I’d never bring dairy or eggs into my home and never eat cheese anywhere, I do partake in the occasional muffin with eggs and milk in it when I go to Starbucks or whatever.
For the record, I’m trying to break that habit, though. 🙂
May 7th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Damn. Not many actresses can go on to get PhDs. Smart and cute. I knew there was another reason Blossom made me a horny 12 year old.