Ruth K Westheimer was Born in Germany in 1928, She was sent to a children's home in Switzerland at the age of ten which became an orphanage for most of the German Jewish students who had been sent there to escape the Holocaust. At 17 she went to Israel where I fought for the country's independence as a member of the Haganah, the Jewish freedom fighters. She then moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and obtained my Masters Degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. In 1970, she received a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in the Interdisciplinary Study of the Family from Columbia University Teacher's College.

Her work at Planned Parenthood is what prompted her to further my education in human sexuality by studying at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center.

Her TV show Sexually Speaking first aired in 1980 as a 15-minute taped show, which then increased in popularity and became a nationally syndicated radio show.

In recent years, she have made regular appearances on the PBS Television children's show Between the Lions as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" in a parody of her therapist role, in which she help anxious readers and spellers overcome their fear of long words.

Currently she is an Adjunct Professor at N.Y.U. and an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University, where she teach a course on the American family. She is also a Fellow of Butler College at Princeton University, where she will teach a course on the Jewish family. In addition to having her own private practice she is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and frequently lecture at universities across the country.