Exclusive | Im a modern nun I ditched my soul-crushing career for an NJ convent, but I cant live without my Netflix

This nun makes a habit of keeping life fun.Sister Monica Clare is still surprised when outsiders don’t believe how superiorly hip it is inside the convent, like one who thought nuns were forbidden to use electricity.“People have interesting ideas about the way nuns live,” the 59-year-old Sister Superior at the Community of St.John Baptist in Mendham, New Jersey, told The Post.“We’re not Amish — we’re nuns.

We have a treadmill, we use iPhones and even stream Netflix and Hulu!”“We have an old, donated treadmill and, yes, I wore my habit while exercising, but I stopped because it started accelerating to 50 mph in the middle of a workout,” she added, noting she generally wears black Asics.As for what’s on TV at the convent: “All the sisters love ‘Call the Midwife!'” she said.That a nun can have fun is another misperception of monastic life that Sister Monica Clare, born Claudette Powell, has been aiming to dispel on social media and in her newly-released book, “A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun.”Online, the Episcopalian nun posts informative and often hilarious TikToks on @nunsenseforthepeople, covering everything from her skin care regimen to what she keeps in the oversized pockets of her habit.(She always keeps lip balm, a Swiss army knife with a USB drive and cough drops on hand).“Some of the nuns don’t get my weird sense of humor, but I worked in advertising when social media was created, so I can speak that language,” she said, with her gentle Southern accent, adding that most of her 200,000 followers are Gen X women.As for that skin care routine, there is none; “I just avoid the sun, I do not drink or smoke, and I do not eat sugar.

Maybe that helps stave off the wrinkles,” she joked.Cutting down her coffee consumption has helped as well.She used to drink six cups of coffee a day and now drinks just one due to her high blood pressure — though “all the sisters...