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About: Mayim Bialik

Full Name: Mayim Bialik
Bio: For all things Mayim, check out Mayim's new blog on Kveller. Mayim Hoya Bialik is best known for her lead role in the 1990s NBC sitcom Blossom, as well as for her portrayal of the young Bette Midler in "Beaches." She has also appeared in Woody Allen's "Don't Drink the Water," HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and is currently recurring on CBS' The Big Bang Theory as Sheldon's love interest, Amy Farrah Fowler. Bialik is the grandchild of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and she received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2007 from UCLA, specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome. She is the celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network, a national non-profit organization dedicating to supporting holistic and green parenting and living. Bialik gave birth to a son in 2005, and a second son (born at home, largely unassisted) in 2008. She is the co-founder and chair of youth branch of the Jewish Free Loan Association, and is devoted to a lifestyle of attachment parenting, homeschooling, vegan cooking, and Jewish text study. She lives in Los Angeles and has just released her first book “ Beyond the Sling” about her family’s experience with parenting by intuition, published by Simon and Schuster.

Nov 15 2011
Mayim on the Black Carpet for the Breaking Dawn Premiere

I attended the “black carpet” premiere of Breaking Dawn, the latest in the Twilight saga. Having never read any of the books and having never seen any of the previous four movies, this was an interesting evening indeed. Continue reading →

Nov 11 2011
Why Mayim Loves Kveller

After talking to these moms and fielding questions, what I realized is that what we do here at Kveller matters. Continue reading →

Nov 7 2011
Mayim Bialik on The Isolation Permutation

Last week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory was called “The Isolation Permutation,” and it was about my character, Amy Farrah Fowler feeling left out by her girlfriends. She spirals into a depression that includes playing “Everybody Hurts” on the … Continue reading →

Nov 4 2011
Mayim Bialik is Not Happy with W Magazine

Most articles I can find on the outrageously disgusting “photo shoot” in W Magazine this month are about the “artist” who directed the shoot from under house arrest in China… how powerful. How meaningful. How profound. What. Ever. The shoot … Continue reading →

Nov 3 2011
Ke$ha Made Me Feel Old

Ke$ha, in one fell swoop, made me feel like an old lame mama. Continue reading →

Oct 27 2011
My Two Boys Finally Like (and Love) Each Other

They have finally started to play together after a long period of me waiting and wondering if it was ever going to happen. Continue reading →

Oct 24 2011
Mayim on Gilad Shalit

I love the Jewish calendar and I find a lot of meaning in the fall holidays. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah are all religiously and culturally significant and beautiful in their own right, but three weeks in … Continue reading →

Oct 19 2011
This is the Torah

Oh, Simchat Torah. You’re the very end of a long holiday season. You’re at the end of Sukkot. You’re after Shemini Atzeret, the holiday almost impossible to define in less than 8 sentences. And you are known colloquially as “the … Continue reading →

Oct 17 2011
I Went to Work on Sukkot

I work on “The Big Bang Theory” and I was required to work on the first two days of Sukkot. We had rehearsal and run-throughs of the script for producers, writers, and CBS; there was no filming involved. Normally, I would … Continue reading →

Oct 11 2011
Mayim Bialik Talks About Sex

A recent Kveller article by Cara Paiuk detailed the best things to do if trying to get pregnant. Cara recommended the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, and I agree—that book changed my life and allowed me to have access … Continue reading →