Aleksandra Żuraw gained popularity thanks to the fourth edition of “Top Model”. After participating in the show, she gained the sympathy of viewers and is currently an internet creator. She has already gathered 359,000 followers on Instagram. On social media, she discusses lifestyle, fashion and beauty topics. She also likes to talk about her private life. In one of her last recordings, she decided to share her memories from the times when she was one of Jehovah's witnesses.
Aleksandra Żuraw left Jehovah's witnesses
Aleksandra Żuraw is a Catholic, but as a child she was one of Jehovah's witnesses. She hasn't talked about this part publicly until now your own lifebut now she decided to tell us what it looked like on Instagram kidsa family that belonged to the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. – I think I'm the greatest internet creator who he can say that he belonged to this organization or he belonged to this sect, as most people saywho is leaving the congregations of Jehovah's witnesses. I know it's like sticking a stick into an anthill, but since it's part of my story, I think it's worth mentioning it here, she began. And later she added: :
I was born into a family that was in this organization. My brothers still remember the reality that existed before my parents joined Jehovah's witnesses
– she added.
Żuraw admitted that she realizes that many people wonder what life is like in a family that believes in Jehovah. So she told what she remembered from the times when she belonged to this community. – I think many people have always been under the impression that I never had a birthday. There was never a cake in my house on my birthday, no children were invited, we never received birthday gifts and we did not celebrate in any way the fact that we were born on a given day. It is forbidden among Jehovah's witnesses, she explained. The celebrity also added that there was no celebration in her home Christmas and Easter. – There is one holiday among Jehovah's witnesses and it is a “memorial”, i.e. a commemoration of the death of Jesus. Then all the witnesses come, she said.
Aleksandra Żuraw about her trauma
The celebrity admitted that What she remembers the worst is the form of discipline that was applied to her. He claims that as kid and the teenager was terrified of the end of the world and the punishment that would possibly await her in the afterlife.
I was raised in fear of Armageddon, the end of the world. And every time I behaved badly or warned me that this was not the right thing to do, it was always explained by the fact that I would not go to heaven with my parents, with my family, because I behaved in one way or another that offended Jehovah
– she confessed.
The celebrity also raised the issue of the ban on transfusions. She admitted that Jehovah's Witnesses do not agree to blood transfusions, even when their lives depend on it. She added also that extreme emotions are aroused by the fact that The Jehovah's Witness community cuts off all contacts with those who decide to leave the congregation, regardless of blood ties. – Not every Jehovah's Witness does this (…), but in the cases I observed, contacts were interrupted completely – said Żuraw.
Finally, the celebrity tried to summarize briefly. – I think I can attribute a lot of the negative things to the fact that I was raised among Jehovah's witnesses and how it shaped me and what it did to me. But in fact, I can honestly say that there are many features that I value very much in myself, which were shaped by the fact that I was one of Jehovah's witnesses – Internet users heard.
It is worth mentioning that there were many comments under the video. Internet users were moved by the model's story. “Ola! Thank you very much for speaking on this topic and sharing your story”, “It's good that you talk about it”, “Very interesting topic. I'd like to learn more” – they wrote.