Dr. Ruth, Multi-career Superstar

Recently, on the way to work, I heard an awesome interview on NPR, with '80s celebrity / sexuality expert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. She is still alive, still very chipper, at almost 80 years old. In this interview, I learned that as a child, she was forced to leave her parents on a Kinder-Transport train for children to escape from the Nazis. Later, she learned that her parents died in the Holocaust.

She then went on to train with the Haganah (a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine) as a sniper! And then she was a psychology professor in Paris, before she finally came to the states to study sociology and human sexuality.

Then I did a search and found that in the 80s, Dr. Ruth created a sex board game, available on Ebay of course!!!



AND she had a sex VIDEO GAME (thankfully this was the 80s, so we are spared of any explicit visuals. But perhaps there is some explicit language.)



Aside from publishing several books about sexuality, she also wrote an autobiography about her fascinating life, in which she admits that her parents basically had a shotgun wedding. And she's also made multiple appearances in skits on Conan O' Brien.

That's right, even if you're just 4'7" with a funny accent, you could become a sniper, a college professor, a sex expert, game developer, author, pop culture celebrity and comedy actor. Yeah. Try to top that!

Amazing. Dr. Ruth is my hero.