What You Don’t Know About Bette Midler
While it may be hard to imagine Bette Midler being anything but a well-loved star, there was a time when she was a young girl who felt like a misfit in her surroundings. Midler was raised in Hawaii, and, as a Jewish girl then, she felt out of place. “I was the white girl, the only one for miles around,” she said to Parade.
Many of the people she met in Hawaii had no idea about Judaism. “One year, my parents kept me home for Yom Kippur, and I brought back a note saying I was out for a religious holiday,” she recalled. “My teacher said, ‘What religious holiday?’ I said, ‘Yom Kippur.’ She said, ‘There’s no such thing.’”
Her family was also relatively poor, and Midler recalled that she couldn’t afford new records. Instead, she had to make do with the family’s old records from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s. “Those were the records that I sang along to until I wore out the grooves,” she said.
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