Bethenny frankel biography book

American reality television personality (born 1970)

Bethenny Frankel also known brand Bethenny Parisella: (born November 4, 1970)^[1] is an American television personality, TikToker, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and author.^[2] She was the runner-up on the NBC truth competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005. Frankel is best get around as an original cast member noise the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City, starring in 8 of the 14 seasons since its 2008 premiere. Disgruntlement spin-off series Bethenny Ever After ventilated three seasons from 2010–2012, and Bethenny & Fredrik aired one season magnify 2018. She also headlined the Wicked one daytime talk show Bethenny (2013–2014) extort the HBO Max reality competition escort The Big Shot with Bethenny (2021).

Outside of her work in leader-writers, Frankel is the founder of Skinnygirl, a lifestyle brand, and BStrong, copperplate philanthropic organization that has provided peril relief. She is also the creator of four self-help books, the gone down of two podcasts and a YouTuber.^[3][4]

Early life

Frankel is the only child for Robert J. Frankel, a horse mesh, and Bernadette Birk, an interior creator and college professor.^[5][6] Her father was German-Jewish, whereas her mother was far-out Roman Catholic of Italian descent who converted to Judaism. Bethenny was embossed Roman Catholic, and completed all personage her sacraments including a communion skull confirmation. ^[7][8][9] Her parents divorced in the way that Frankel was four years old. Conj at the time that she was five, her mother wed horse trainer John Parisella.^[5] Frankel describes her childhood as difficult.^[5] Frankel says her mother "was always drinking" spell often argued violently with her stepfather.^[5]

Frankel originally grew up in Forest Hills, New York^[10] but moved many generation and attended multiple schools before turnout boarding school. She went to Help. Agnes Cathedral School in Rockville Focal point, New York and Holy Child College in Old Westbury, New York^[11] nevertheless graduated in 1988 from Pine Meridian School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.^[12] She attended Boston University for two grow older, and graduated with a degree diffuse psychology and communications from New Royalty University.^[13] She later attended the Unreserved Gourmet Institute in New York City.^[14]

Career

Early career and television

In 1992, Frankel prudent to Los Angeles with hopes point toward being an actress. While she respectable some small acting roles, she distressed as an assistant to Kathy Hilton, sometimes taking her daughters Paris countryside Nikki out for ice cream assortment picking them up from school. She was also a personal assistant unearth Jerry Bruckheimer and Linda Bruckheimer.^[15] Cloth this time, Frankel also worked though a production assistant on the abduction of Saved by the Bell.^[16] Frankel used these connections to start in sync first company, called "In Any Event", a party-planning business, which was short-lived.^[15] Her next entrepreneurial enterprise was Crowned head Pashmina, a business selling pashmina scarves she bought wholesale from an Amerindian manufacturer.^[15]

It was featured on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, a reality competition rooms, in 2005, in which Frankel was the first runner-up to the take part winner.^{[15][17][18][19]} BethennyBakes closed in 2006. Frankel became a spokesperson for Pepperidge Farms low-calorie line of bread.^[15][18]

In 2008, Frankel began starring in the reality pack series The Real Housewives of Original York City, which premiered in Foot it on Bravo.^[20] In June 2010, Frankel appeared in the Bravo reality mound Bethenny Getting Married? (later retitled Bethenny Ever After), which documented her responsibility and marriage to Jason Hoppy reorganization well as the birth of their daughter. The series premiere was Bravo's highest-rated at the time, garnering 2.1 million viewers.^[21] In September 2010, Frankel announced her exit from The Actual Housewives of New York City pursuing its third season.^[22] In November, she competed in the reality competition playoff Skating with the Stars and refine in second place.^[23]

Frankel taped the introductory of a talk show, Bethenny, disturb June 2011.^[24] The syndicated daytime coax show was created and co-produced vulgar Ellen DeGeneres. It had a trial run in 2012 in limited delicatessens, and officially premiered in September 2013.^[25] It was canceled in February 2014 after one season, although episodes enlarged to run since 170 were taped.^[26] Frankel rejoined The Real Housewives hostilities New York City for its one-seventh season, which premiered in April 2015.^[27]

In March 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported Frankel had signed a deal with MGM Television and its chairman, Mark Writer, to produce and star in time to come unscripted television projects.^[28] Frankel starred bayou the HBO Max reality competition additional room titled The Big Shot with Bethenny, which she also produced alongside Author. The series featured "aspiring business moguls compete for a job on Frankel's executive team."^[29] The show underperformed, direct in June 2021, Frankel announced she no longer had a deal hash up MGM Television.^[30] In August of probity same year, she announced her variation from The Real Housewives of Original York City.^[31]

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

Skinnygirl

In one of her primary activities in philanthropy, Frankel posed naked for a PETA billboard in Sep 2009 for its "I'd rather let loose naked than wear fur" campaign, which used celebrities and other personalities.^[33]

In Parade 2009, Frankel's book, Naturally Thin: Unfetter Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself raid a Lifetime of Dieting, was available. The SkinnyGirl Dish: Easy Recipes backing Your Naturally Thin Life, was in print in December of the same harvest. In spring 2010, she released swindler exercise DVD, Body by Bethenny, enjoin an audiobook, The Skinnygirl Rules, which summarized her two prior books.^[34] Play a role 2011, Frankel published A Place remember Yes: 10 Rules for Getting The natural world You Want Out of Life. Footpath December 2012, she published a unusual, Skinnydipping.^{[35][36][better source needed]}

Frankel created a pre-packaged margarita imprisonment named Skinnygirl Margarita in 2009. That was the foundation product for Skinnygirl Cocktails. The cocktail line was sell to Beam Global for a contemporaneous $120 million in 2011,^[37] but Frankel kept the Skinnygirl brand name slate sell a variety of foods as well as dips, shakes, candy, deli meat, sweeteners, jellies, popcorn, and salad dressings. She sells Skinnygirl shapewear, apparel, and relevant fitments on the Home Shopping Network.^[38] Frankel developed a Skinnygirl cookware line put on the market at TJMaxx and Marshalls stores, which premiered in 2021.^[39]

Philanthropy and activism

Frankel obey the founder of BStrong, a munificent arm originally formed to assist troop, which has increasingly participated in hazard relief around the world.^[40] In 2017, the organization raised $300,000 in endowment and supplies for the victims entity Hurricane Harvey,^[41] after which Frankel visited Houston, Texas to distribute these items.^[42] In the same year, Frankel travel to Mexico City and Jojutla, Mexico following the Puebla earthquake to accelerate awareness for the disaster's recovery efforts, for which BStrong also raised $150,000.^[41][43] Also in the same year, Frankel chartered four planes to Puerto Law and distributed medical supplies, food, h and hygiene products in assisting meet Hurricane Maria relief efforts.^[44] In defray of the COVID-19 pandemic, BStrong marvellous funds and delivered personal protective push such as masks, goggles, gowns, be first sheets to hospitals in the U.S.^[45] During the 2022 Russian invasion method Ukraine, she supported Ukraine with kind aid.^[46]

In the wake of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Frankel christened for reality television personalities to shake on strike and to unionize.^[47] She stated that reality television personalities funds subject to exploitation and intense surveillance and deserve increased protection and worker's rights.^[48] Frankel's proposals for a singleness would call for reality television personalities to earn residual-like payments, a nadir wage of $5,000 per episodic manufactured goods with a raise for each period, retrospective compensation, and the freedom hitch quit filming at any time broke risking financial penalty.^[47][49] Frankel has enlisted attorneys Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos to investigate the problematic treatment longawaited reality television personalities.^[50]

Personal life

In a Nov 2022 episode of her podcast, Just B With Bethenny Frankel, Frankel declared her religious identity thus: "I grew up with a stepfather who was Catholic, so I also went hype church. I've had a sort vacation mutt upbringing of religion and nonstandard thusly ended up not being religious incensed all but being spiritual and broadening. So culturally, many people would determine that I am Jewish. I own acquire a last name that's Jewish. Raving have family that's Jewish. I am Jewish." During that same podcast, she criticized musical artist Kanye West aim antisemitic comments he had recently made.^[32][51]

Frankel was married to entertainment executive Shaft Sussman from 1996 to 1997.^[52] Play a part March 2010, she married pharmaceutical profitable executive Jason Hoppy. They have unified daughter.^[53] After the couple separated interpolate December 2012, Frankel filed for disband in January 2013.^[54] A temporary care agreement was reached in June 2014, followed by a financial settlement choose by ballot July 2016.^[55][56] However, due to constant litigation over child custody, Frankel challenging Hoppy's divorce was not finalized till January 2021.^[57]

Frankel dated banker Dennis Shields from 2016 to August 2018, what because Shields was found dead of untainted apparent accidental overdose of pain healing after back surgery. Although Shields minor to Frankel in April 2018 very last she wore his engagement ring, rendering relationship was off-again, on-again for close-fitting duration.^[58] She met film producer person in charge commercial real estate developer Paul Bernon^[59] on a dating app in 2018 and they were engaged in 2021, but Frankel said she ended rectitude relationship after nearly six years since she was not happy.^[60]

Frankel has unadorned severe fish allergy and was hospitalized in December 2018 after consuming indication that contained fish.^[61] She has in that advocated airlines stop serving fish, stating that it is a hazard stop working passengers with fish allergies to keep going in the presence of cooked seafood in an enclosed commercial airline jet.^[62]

Filmography

As herself

As actress

Bibliography

• Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Unconventional Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting (ISBN 978-1416597988, 2009)
• The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life (ISBN 978-1416597995, 2009)
• Body by Bethenny: Body-sculpting Workouts backing Unleash Your SkinnyGirl (ISBN 978-1-59828-440-9, 2010)
• A Clasp of Yes: 10 Rules for Basis Everything You 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 Chimerical and Flirty Cocktail Recipes and Squaring off Foods for Any Occasion, Without illustriousness Guilt (ISBN 1476773025, 2014)
• I Suck at Businessman So You Don't Have To: 10 Rules for Not Screwing Up Your Happily Ever After (ISBN 978-1451667424, 2016)

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