{"id":1693,"date":"2025-01-06T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2025-01-06T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:13:00","slug":"americas-most-famous-personality-dies-at-her-home-in-manhattan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s most famous personality dies at her home in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s most famous personality dies at her home in Manhattan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruth Westheimer, a famous teacher on sex and relationships, has died at the age of 96.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People knew her as Dr. Ruth, and for decades she gave hot tips on how to have a hot sex life on her radio show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Because she was honest and gave honest advice, she became a famous name for pillow talk and a star in her own right.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times reports that Dr. Ruth\u2019s spokesman, Pierre Lehu, told the press that she had died at her home in New York.<\/p>\n

Westheimer was born in Germany in 1928 and was Jewish. She lived through World War II and saw it from the front lines.<\/p>\n

She almost went to one of the Holocaust\u2019s concentration camps before she moved to the United States as a teenager.<\/p>\n

A lot of the time, she said that her view of sex as something to be enjoyed came from bad things that happened to her when she was young.<\/p>\n

She began her career in the 1980s by taking mailed-in questions from radio listeners about sex and relationships. She was in her 50s at the time.<\/p>\n

She wrote more than 40 books, some of which were how-to guides on health and sexuality. These books talked about things that most doctors still don\u2019t talk about openly.<\/p>\n

After having a regular column in Playgirl magazine, Dr. Ruth even let an educational board game and a computer game use her well-known name.<\/p>\n

People in college looked up to her, and getting her to come to campus was often one of the biggest events of the year.<\/p>\n

Soon, her face started showing up in commercials and small roles in popular TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n

In the French film One Woman or Two (1985), which starred G\u00e9rard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver, she had a small but well-known part. The movie came out in the US in 1987.<\/p>\n

NOT LIKE ANYOTHER
\nDr. Ruth was famous for how she did therapy and how she thought about relationships and sex.<\/p>\n

At that time, people usually only talked about sexual relations in very medical terms or behind closed doors, whispering about what their friends had learned in their private lives.<\/p>\n

Westheimer was a short woman (4 feet 7 inches) with a wry smile and a light accent who gave out sex tips. This made her even more memorable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething like a cross between Henry Kissinger and a canary,\u201d the Wall Street Journal said of the way she talked and acted.<\/p>\n

A lot of the things she said on her radio show are now part of her legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking your partner happy is the most important thing in sex.\u201d She once said, \u201cIf you don\u2019t, it\u2019s bad for both of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t waste your time with bad sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexuality should be celebrated, not hidden or shamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

And well-known: \u201cSexual pleasure is the most wonderful thing in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

A GOOD LIFE
\nWestheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld, Germany, on June 4, 1928. She was the only child of Julius and Irma Siegel, who were both Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n

It was nice for her to live with her parents and grandparents until Germany started to treat Jews worse all over the country.<\/p>\n

In 1938, the Nazis took away her father. Her family then sent her to an orphanage in Switzerland, where she says she was treated badly.<\/p>\n

It is thought that her parents and grandparents died in Auschwitz because she never saw them again.<\/p>\n

The young Dr. Ruth then moved to Israel and married her first husband, but their marriage didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n

She later married a Frenchman and had a child with him, but she later said that marriage was also not sustainable.<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, she moved to New York City and finally met her match in telecommunications engineer Manfred Westheimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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