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Undergarments, Religion and AR15s: An Interview with Michal Idan

 

As I arrived to a specific kosher café in Tel-Aviv, one of the few that still exist there, my interviewee had a noisey approach to the set location of the meeting. She didn’t scream or trip over her own feet, she just dismantled her Honda CBR. A month ago I interviewed the up and coming model Michal Idan whom is represented for D.A.L Model Management. We chatted about off-runway modeling, body image and religion.

 

One of the most detached from reality locations in Israel, border lining Tel-Aviv is the city of Bnei Barak. This city covers up women in advertisements, closes down streets on weekends and has no bacon or pepperonis on its Pizzas. Ben Barak is an orthodox city that its inhabitants are composed dominantly of Israel’s Jewish Orthodox community. They live a fundamentally primitive life in midst of the technological thriving country known as Israel. Yet there are surprises.

 

“I consider myself religious even though I mainly model bikinis and lingerie,” states Idan with a firm facial composure from the other side of our coffee table when asked about her religious identity. She has eleven brothers and sisters and even her older sister like her, modeled. 

Idan’s measurements (88-59-89, 171cm) aren’t runway minimum but she isn’t running after anything in high-heels. She has modeled as a actor since she was around 12 or so and in the recent years, with the sprout of her womanly figure, moved into lingerie and swimwear.

So what got a religious girl to start modeling? “My sister used to be a model and was the starting point in the modeling scene for me”. Kind of like a bat mitzvah in the Jewish culture, just with a little less clothes nowadays.

 

Recently she traveled to Turkey and had her first international campaign. Another milestone under her belt is being a presenter for the lingerie company Bonita de Mas with three other Israeli girls (not Dafy Hagai’s). With Idan’s work being mainly seductive and skin baring it does come at a cost with her views about life and ethics.“It’s against everything I believe in, but I love it  dearly. It does contradict the values of a religious lifestyle and I [chose] let go off these values because modeling is a major role in my life.” 

It’s crystal clear that Idan knows what her strong sides are and she combines a religious lifestyle with lingerie and bikini modeling. She keeps sabbath and every other value your neighborhood religious woman does, just unlike the latter, she does it in style not looking like a Jewish woman from the 20th century. But what’s truly thought provoking about Idan’s character is that she knows she’s sinning or leaping over these rules for her career, but that’s between her and the man upstairs, not for the general public to judge.

 

Source:

 

http://www.aestheticult.net/blog/2015/9/18/undergarments-religion-and-ar15s-an-interview-with-michal-idan

 

 

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