She left The Real Housewives of New York City because “it felt kind of gross, it felt a little dirty.” And now? “And now it’s clean.”
Bethenny Frankel
Alex Silverman
There are dozens of women who have played the Real Housewives game and lost. The history of Bravo's multi-city franchise is littered with foreclosures, bankruptcies, and even — in the famous case of Teresa Giudice — prison.
And then there's Bethenny Frankel, Real Housewives' biggest winner.
The Real Housewives of New York City — the first expansion of the franchise after the original, Orange County — premiered in March 2008, and Frankel was its breakout star. She was sharp, funny, scrappy, eye-rolling, and down-to-earth. Her hard-luck background had made her tough, and in the show's whirlpool of madness and delusion, Frankel was the audience's anchor. In contrast to the rest of the cast, who had husbands and children but hazy or nonexistent jobs, she was career-focused. Broke at the start of the show but with entrepreneurial dreams, Frankel went from being a natural-foods chef to parlaying her Housewives fame into a book deal (Naturally Thin, a New York Times best-seller in 2009). Her Skinnygirl business — the cocktail brand she sold to Beam in 2011, and ancillary products she still retains and oversees — has yielded her millions.
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