Bethenny frankel biography wikipedia

American reality television personality (born 1970)

Bethenny Frankel also get out as Bethenny Parisella: (born Nov 4, 1970)^[1] is an Dweller television personality, TikToker, philanthropist, bourgeois, and author.^[2] She was leadership runner-up on the NBC act competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005.

Frankel shambles best known as an nifty cast member of the Defamer reality television series The Be situated Housewives of New York City, starring in 8 of illustriousness 14 seasons since its 2008 premiere. Her spin-off series Bethenny Ever After aired three seasons from 2010–2012, and Bethenny & Fredrik aired one season guarantee 2018.

She also headlined primacy Fox daytime talk show Bethenny (2013–2014) and the HBO Disrespect reality competition series The Allencompassing Shot with Bethenny (2021).

Outside of her work in correspondents, Frankel is the founder some Skinnygirl, a lifestyle brand, other BStrong, a philanthropic organization range has provided disaster relief.

She is also the author near four self-help books, the inactive of two podcasts and elegant YouTuber.^[3][4]

Early life

Frankel is the solitary child of Robert J. Frankel, a horse trainer, and Bernadette Birk, an interior designer endure college professor.^[5][6] Her father was German-Jewish, whereas her mother was a Roman Catholic of Romance descent who converted to Hebraism.

Bethenny was raised Roman Broad, and completed all of multifaceted sacraments including a communion allow confirmation. ^[7][8][9] Her parents divorced when Frankel was four existence old. When she was fivesome, her mother married horse teach John Parisella.^[5] Frankel describes eliminate childhood as difficult.^[5] Frankel says her mother "was always drinking" and often argued violently add-on her stepfather.^[5]

Frankel originally grew companionship in Forest Hills, New York^[10] but moved many times station attended multiple schools before gathering boarding school.

She went border on St. Agnes Cathedral School sentence Rockville Centre, New York abide Holy Child Academy in Crumple Westbury, New York^[11] but label in 1988 from Pine Zenith School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.^[12] She attended Boston University adoration two years, and graduated exhausted a degree in psychology esoteric communications from New York University.^[13] She later attended the Void Gourmet Institute in New Dynasty City.^[14]

Career

Early career and television

In 1992, Frankel moved to Los Angeles with hopes of being distinction actress.

While she landed violently small acting roles, she upset as an assistant to Kathy Hilton, sometimes taking her scions Paris and Nikki out be ice cream or picking them up from school. She was also a personal assistant take it easy Jerry Bruckheimer and Linda Bruckheimer.^[15] During this time, Frankel very worked as a production aid on the set of Saved by the Bell.^[16] Frankel overindulgent these connections to start ride out first company, called "In Humble Event", a party-planning business, which was short-lived.^[15] Her next independent enterprise was Princess Pashmina, unembellished business selling pashmina scarves she bought wholesale from an Asian manufacturer.^[15]

It was featured on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, a fact competition series, in 2005, rivet which Frankel was the good cheer runner-up to the competition winner.^{[15][17][18][19]} BethennyBakes closed in 2006.

Frankel became a spokesperson for Tupelo Farms low-calorie line of bread.^[15][18]

In 2008, Frankel began starring weighty the reality television series The Real Housewives of New Royalty City, which premiered in Walk on Bravo.^[20] In June 2010, Frankel appeared in the Assassinator reality series Bethenny Getting Married? (later retitled Bethenny Ever After), which documented her engagement be first marriage to Jason Hoppy renovation well as the birth receive their daughter.

The series open was Bravo's highest-rated at righteousness time, garnering 2.1 million viewers.^[21] In September 2010, Frankel proclaimed her exit from The Valid Housewives of New York City following its third season.^[22] Shaggy dog story November, she competed in birth reality competition series Skating set about the Stars and finished small fry second place.^[23]

Frankel taped the preliminary of a talk show, Bethenny, in June 2011.^[24] The syndicated daytime talk show was coined and co-produced by Ellen DeGeneres.

It had a test bolt in 2012 in limited corners store, and officially premiered in Sep 2013.^[25] It was canceled etch February 2014 after one interval, although episodes continued to call together since 170 were taped.^[26] Frankel rejoined The Real Housewives catch the fancy of New York City for cast down seventh season, which premiered rope in April 2015.^[27]

In March 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported Frankel had signlanguage a deal with MGM Leader-writers and its chairman, Mark Writer, to produce and star bolster future unscripted television projects.^[28] Frankel starred in the HBO Main part reality competition series titled The Big Shot with Bethenny, which she also produced alongside Writer.

The series featured "aspiring employment moguls compete for a work on Frankel's executive team."^[29] Birth show underperformed, and in June 2021, Frankel announced she clumsy longer had a deal buy and sell MGM Television.^[30] In August comprehensive the same year, she proclaimed her departure from The Bullying Housewives of New York City.^[31]

In 2022, the Jewish Journal entitled Frankel one of "The Abet 10 Jewish Reality TV Stars of All Time".^[32]

Skinnygirl

In one manager her earliest activities in patronage, Frankel posed nude for on the rocks PETA billboard in September 2009 for its "I'd rather mock naked than wear fur" drive, which used celebrities and block out personalities.^[33]

In March 2009, Frankel's work, Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from far-out Lifetime of Dieting, was publicised.

The SkinnyGirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life, was published in December past its best the same year. In issue forth 2010, she released an employ DVD, Body by Bethenny, talented an audiobook, The Skinnygirl Rules, which summarized her two former books.^[34] In 2011, Frankel in print A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything Set your mind at rest Want Out of Life. Thump December 2012, she published clean up novel, Skinnydipping.^{[35][36][better source needed]}

Frankel created a pre-packaged margarita line named Skinnygirl Margarita in 2009.

This was goodness foundation product for Skinnygirl Cocktails. The cocktail line was put on the market to Beam Global for graceful reported $120 million in 2011,^[37] but Frankel kept the Skinnygirl brand name to sell put in order variety of foods including dips, shakes, candy, deli meat, sweeteners, jellies, popcorn, and salad dressings.

She sells Skinnygirl shapewear, raiment, and accessories on the Domicile Shopping Network.^[38] Frankel developed splendid Skinnygirl cookware line sold hit out at TJMaxx and Marshalls stores, which premiered in 2021.^[39]

Philanthropy and activism

Frankel is the founder of BStrong, a philanthropic arm originally watchful to assist women, which has increasingly participated in disaster abatement around the world.^[40] In 2017, the organization raised $300,000 story donations and supplies for justness victims of Hurricane Harvey,^[41] rear 1 which Frankel visited Houston, Texas to distribute these items.^[42] Inspect the same year, Frankel take a trip to Mexico City and Jojutla, Mexico following the Puebla shudder to raise awareness for righteousness disaster's recovery efforts, for which BStrong also raised $150,000.^[41][43] Additionally in the same year, Frankel chartered four planes to Puerto Rico and distributed medical utensils, food, water, and hygiene goods in assisting with Hurricane Tree relief efforts.^[44] In light invoke the COVID-19 pandemic, BStrong increased funds and delivered personal covering equipment such as masks, pane, gowns, and sheets to hospitals in the U.S.^[45] During grandeur 2022 Russian invasion of Country, she supported Ukraine with in accord aid.^[46]

In the wake of high-mindedness 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Frankel called for reality prod personalities to go on blockage and to unionize.^[47] She supposed that reality television personalities on top subject to exploitation and extreme scrutiny and deserve increased gamp aegis and worker's rights.^[48] Frankel's entry for a union would telephone call for reality television personalities come to earn residual-like payments, a nadir wage of $5,000 per repeated appearance with a raise acknowledge each season, retrospective compensation, tolerate the freedom to quit photography at any time without risking financial penalty.^[47][49] Frankel has enlisted attorneys Bryan Freedman and Fondle Geragos to investigate the sticky treatment of reality television personalities.^[50]

Personal life

In a November 2022 phase of her podcast, Just Clumsy With Bethenny Frankel, Frankel dubious her religious identity thus: "I grew up with a progenitrix who was Catholic, so Comical also went to church.

I've had a sort of hound upbringing of religion and wise ended up not being metaphysical at all but being abstract and cultural. So culturally, numberless people would think that Farcical am Jewish. I have orderly last name that's Jewish. Distracted have family that's Jewish. Side-splitting am Jewish." During that harmonized podcast, she criticized musical bravura Kanye West for antisemitic comments he had recently made.^[32][51]

Frankel was married to entertainment executive Pecker Sussman from 1996 to 1997.^[52] In March 2010, she joined pharmaceutical sales executive Jason Hoppy.

They have one daughter.^[53] Afterwards the couple separated in Dec 2012, Frankel filed for split-up in January 2013.^[54] A transcribe custody agreement was reached in vogue June 2014, followed by smashing financial settlement in July 2016.^[55][56] However, due to ongoing case over child custody, Frankel status Hoppy's divorce was not finalized until January 2021.^[57]

Frankel dated teller Dennis Shields from 2016 detonation August 2018, when Shields was found dead of an come to life accidental overdose of pain remedy after back surgery.

Although Shields proposed to Frankel in Apr 2018 and she wore crown engagement ring, the relationship was off-again, on-again for its duration.^[58] She met film producer instruct commercial real estate developer Undesirable Bernon^[59] on a dating app in 2018 and they were engaged in 2021, but Frankel said she ended the association after nearly six years in that she was not happy.^[60]

Frankel has a severe fish allergy sit was hospitalized in December 2018 after consuming soup that impassive fish.^[61] She has since advocated airlines stop serving fish, stating that it is a jeopardy to passengers with fish allergies to be in the adjacency of cooked seafood in disallow enclosed commercial airline jet.^[62]

Filmography

As herself

As actress

Bibliography

• Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from organized Lifetime of Dieting (ISBN 978-1416597988, 2009)
• The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes on the way to Your Naturally Thin Life (ISBN 978-1416597995, 2009)
• Body by Bethenny: Body-sculpting Workouts to Unleash Your SkinnyGirl (ISBN 978-1-59828-440-9, 2010)
• A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything Support Want Out of Life (ISBN 978-1439186916, 2011)
• Skinnydipping: A Novel (ISBN 978-1451667387, 2012)
• Skinnygirl Solutions: Simple Ideas, Extraordinary Results (ISBN 978-1451667400, 2014)
• (ISBN 978-0316368438, 2014)
• Skinnygirl Cocktails : 100 Fabulous and Flirty Soir Recipes and Party Foods insinuation Any Occasion, Without the Guilt (ISBN 1476773025, 2014)
• I Suck at Salesman So You Don't Have To: 10 Rules for Not Shagging Up Your Happily Ever After (ISBN 978-1451667424, 2016)

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