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Helen Rubenstein is a highly traditional mother and raised her daughter Cristina in the Jewish faith.
Personal life
On the day of her daughter's wedding, she comments that she had supposed her daughter to be too emotionally stunted for marriage, but was happy to be apparently proven wrong.
Romantic life
Helen first married and had a child named Cristina but she later remarried to Dr. Saul Rubenstein, an oral surgeon, when Cristina was three. Cristina's father died later in a car accident when she was nine.