Roseanne tells the interviewer, “Since God has an incredible sense of humor, I was born as an orthodox Jewish girl in Salt Lake City, Utah, of course!” Salt Lake City is the center of America’s Mormon community, which until recently comprised over half the population. Ms. Barr notes that she was a dark-haired, chubby Jewish girl who grew up among light-haired, Norwegian-looking Christian kids.
She was a self-professed “red diaper baby,” whose family was ardently socialist in its political outlook, and her father a fan of the Russian Marxist, Leon Trotsky.