{"id":78976,"date":"2015-11-08T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78976"},"modified":"2015-11-08T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:54:58","slug":"nyp-my-dad-howard-stern-put-me-off-dating-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78976","title":{"rendered":"NYP: My dad Howard Stern put me off dating men"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Post<\/a>: A couple of blocks away from the Upper West Side home of radio\u2019s king of raunch, Howard Stern, his Torah-scholar daughter sits in her ankle-length skirt and recites a blessing.<\/p>\n

Emily Stern, 32, couldn\u2019t have a life more different from her famous father\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade ago, Howard\u2019s eldest child decided to practice Orthodox Judaism, and traded in Friday nights about town for 20-person Shabbat dinners in an uptown apartment. Strappy dresses gave way to outfits that cover her elbows and knees.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also single \u2014 and chalks that up to her pop\u2019s habit of blabbing about graphic sex on the airwaves five days a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s rare I go on dates [now],\u201d Emily tells The Post. And, \u201cmy dad\u2019s emphasis on sexuality [in his career] kept me out of the dating ring [when I was younger].\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also still scarred by her parents\u2019 1999 split \u2014 Howard divorced college sweetheart Alison Berns, the mother of Emily and her sisters, Ashley and Debra, after 21 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed that my parents were very much in love,\u201d Emily says. \u201cI felt like the divorce came out of nowhere. I thought that sacred bond was so strong. He used to be one way, and then he marries a model.\u201d (Howard, 61, married blond bombshell Beth Ostrosky, who is 18 years his junior, in 2008.)<\/p>\n

She muses that her mom\u2019s re-entry into the working world might have been the straw that broke Howard\u2019s back. \u201cMaybe he couldn\u2019t handle it when she went back to work as a psychoanalyst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raised in tony Old Westbury, LI, the Stern daughters\u2019 sheen as progeny of a celebrity belied a much more complicated adolescence.<\/p>\n

Emily says it was difficult to deal with Howard\u2019s fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad always instilled in us, \u2018Everybody\u2019s watching you,\u2019\u2009\u201d she recalls. While Howard \u201calways said it was for our protection,\u201d she attributes his warnings to \u201cnarcissism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was alone. The belief that we were so different made it unhealthy,\u201d she says. \u201cMaybe because he was disconnected from the world, he experienced so much shame about who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

She grew up fasting for Yom Kippur and enjoying family Passover Seders, but her parents weren\u2019t particularly religious. Howard once said on-air that he hated wearing yarmulkes and joked that the theme of Emily\u2019s bat mitzvah should be \u201cI hate Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Howard and Alison did practice Transcendental Meditation. Emily got her first mantra at age 10, and still practices today. In 2014, Howard told Jerry Seinfeld on an episode of \u201cComedians in Cars Getting Coffee\u201d that \u201ceveryone in my life meditates; I don\u2019t think I could really live without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily went on to graduate from the theater program at NYU\u2019s Tisch School, but laments a lack of familial guidance when it came to pursuing a career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never discussed what I\u2019d be when I was growing up,\u201d she says. \u201cIt sort of did me a disservice.\u201d She now works full-time as an artist (writing plays and music and acting) while also studying Torah at the Drisha Institute.<\/p>\n

In 2005, she was cast in the off-off-Broadway play \u201cKabbalah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing Madonna, Emily says she was \u201cso excited for and committed to\u201d the role that she colored her raven locks blond \u2014 and went nude.<\/p>\n

But things went south after mediocre reviews surfaced. According to Emily, low ticket sales forced director Tuvia Tenenbom to trade on her \u201cdaughter-of\u201d status \u2014 and an unauthorized video of her wearing next to nothing \u2014 to promote the show. (Tenenbom denies doing any of this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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