At the age of 96, famous sex and relationship expert Ruth Westheimer passed away.
Famous therapist and radio show host, best known as “Dr. Ruth,” gave sexy advice for decades.
Her honesty and straightforward advice made her a famous personality for pillow talk and a star in her own right.
It was reported in The New York Times that Dr. Ruth died at her home in New York. Her spokesman, Pierre Lehu, made the announcement.
Eastman Westheimer was born in Germany in 1928. She was Jewish and lived through World War II.
Her narrow escape from the Holocaust’s concentration camps happened before she moved to the United States as a teenager.
As a child, she had some very bad experiences that made her think that sex was something that should be enjoyed.
In her 50s, the famous person began her career by answering mailed-in questions about relationships and sex on the radio in the 1980s.
In her more than 40 books, including some how-to guides on health and sexuality, she talked about things that most doctors still don’t talk about openly.
She used to have a regular column in Playgirl magazine and even used her famous name in a computer game and an educational board game.
Her acceptance of an invitation to campus would often make it one of the biggest events of the year for the college students who saw her.
Her face started showing up in commercials and small roles in well-known TV shows and movies rather quickly.
Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver starred in the French film One Woman or Two, which came out in 1985 and was later shown in the US.
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Her approach to therapy and her knowledge of sex and relationships made Dr. Ruth famous.
Talking openly about sexual relations at that time was usually limited to medical matters or whispering behind closed doors about what friends had learned in their personal lives.
And the way Westheimer was portrayed—a short, 4-foot-7 woman with a wry smile and a light accent giving sex advice—made her even more memorable.
The Wall Street Journal said she sounded and behaved “like a cross between Henry Kissinger and a canary.”
This woman’s radio show comments have become part of her legacy.
“To make your partner happy is the most important thing in sex.” She once told him, “If you don’t, it’s bad for both of you.”
“Experience bad sex as little as possible “
“Sexuality should be celebrated, not hidden or shamed.”
Also known: “Sexual pleasure is the most wonderful thing in the world.”
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The only child of an Orthodox Jewish couple named Julius and Irma Siegel, Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld, Germany, on June 4, 1928.
Her life with her parents and grandparents was good until Germany started to hit Jews harder all over the country.
She says she was treated like a second-class citizen at an orphanage in Switzerland after the Nazis took away her father in 1938.
Her parents and grandparents were killed in Auschwitz, so she never saw them again.
Later, when she was young, Dr. Ruth moved to Israel and married her first husband. However, their marriage didn’t last long.
She then married a Frenchman and had a child with him, but she later said that marriage was also not sustainable.
After moving to New York City in the 1950s, she finally met the right person: telecommunications engineer Manfred Westheimer.
Their marriage began in the early 1960s and lasted until Manfred’s death in 1997.
Naomi Ruth’s son Joel Westheimer, daughter Miriam Westheimer, and four grandchildren will miss her.