So I'm told

Not any more, so I'm told.

Lets knock Jenna night is it.

I'm liking Jenna. She's coming across as one of the few likeable and relatively sane American HMs.

Yes, I think she is ok so far.

She's a major porn star but she does eat kosher

Skinless sausage

I shouldn't but.

BB casting made a mistake. I suspect she acted like a diva in casting for them (because the show clearly wanted a house full of absolute beasts on the American side), but outsmarted them by being herself in the house.

she loves sausage

Am I the only one who thinks she looks better now?

I never knew her as a porn star, bit before my time, but looking at pictures, she looked gaunt and pretty nasty, not my type at all.

I think she looks alright now.

To be fair, she's tattooed. That's against Jewish law.

I'm all for respecting food choices (being vegetarian), but I hate people who pick and choose what they want to "respect" from religions, and then throw a hissy if everyone else doesn't support it.

I used to live next door to an Orthodox Jewish family. They had in effect two kitchens in one, separate pans, sinks storage etc for dairy and meat. I gather this came from a line in the Old Testament which says something like Thou shalt not cook a kid in its mother's milk. Another aspect of their religious observance was that the wife wore a wig over her hair. Apparently it is traditional among Orthodox Jews for married women to cover their hair. I didn't enquire why but I got the impression it was to do with modesty.

I also lived for a couple of weeks in the home of Reform Jews (in the USA). They didn't eat meat and milk in the same meal but didn't go to the same lengths for separation. They also had a more liberal attitude in other ways. They wouldn't bring seafood into the house but would eat it in restaurants for example. The wife did not cover her hair.

Both families were practicing Jews and identified fully with that ethnicity and religion. However in neither case can I imagine them considering a career of having sex with multiple partners on film a good fit with the differing degrees of religious observance.

I think those are old tattoos though, aren't they? I get the impression she found religion at some point after she got those.

Probably. I cant' imagine anyone with her past being "religious" at the time. I still think she picks and chooses her "devotion" to the religion. She doesn't exactly present herself as a devoutly religious person (of any religion). Guess it's against her religion to share.

Bottom line, my problem with her and her attitude is, it's not disrespecting anything. It's not like Janice put the bacon in "her" fridge.

Maybe she's on a protein diet....gobble gobble!

I looked it up. She got the tattoos when she ran away from home at 16. The guy she shacked up with was a tattoo artist, apparently.

As for her eating sausage? Heh. Well it's not like she digested the sausage. Maybe some of the byproduct, but not the sausage itself!!! That didn't ever go past her esophagus.

Joking aside, her bio says her mother died when she was 2. Given that Judiasm passes through the mother, and the mother wasn't around, that's why it makes sense being observant may have been a later-in-life decision.

I had only realised this morning that she wasn't raised in Judaism but came to the religion fairly recently. That does make sense of what had looked like glaring inconsistencies in her personal philosophy.

Unskinned sausage is still funny though.

Yes, I admit it did make me laugh

Not so, the large tattoo on her upper left arm was done last year