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Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel wants to forget she did a topless
sex scene in the trashy 1994 B-movie Hollywood Hills 90028. (Photos/CelebSlam, SC)
Reality tv star Bethenny Frankel says she would never pose nude for anything "tacky or trashy" like Penthouse or Playboy.
"I've only posed naked for PETA and on my show," Frankel, 39, tells Access Hollywood. "I have no problems with my body but I wouldn't pose for anything trashy or tacky." (see video below)
ASPIRING ACTRESS
Except that she did. Back in 1994, when Bethenny was an aspiring actress (like most reality stars are), she posed topless and did a tacky, trashy sex scene in the 1994 flop Hollywood Hills 90028. (see the cheesy screenshots at CelebSlam)
While a celeb posing nude is hardly earth-shattering, Bethenny has built her reputation and personal brand on being real and authentic.
In fact, she's the first person to call out any of her fellow Housewives for lying, being publicity wh*res or acting pretentious (remember she reamed Alex McCord for that in Seasons 1 and 2?). "I tell it like it is, and not how it should be," Frankel has said repeatedly on The Real Housewives of New York City -- the reality show that made her famous.
Her I've-never-posed-trashy-naked proclamation is just another hole in Bethenny's carefully constructed persona as an everywoman that has won her millions of fans.
A FORMER FOOD ADDICT TURNS FITNESS GURU
Another contradiction appears to lie in Frankel's status as a fitness role model. While Bethenny undoubtedly has a slammin' bikini body and lost 29 pounds just 21 days after giving birth to daughter Bryn in May, she became a best-selling diet book author by preaching that women didn't have to diet to be "naturally thin.".JPG)
But Frankel confessed she was anorexic and a food addict for much of her life, and was 20 pounds heavier until just a few years ago. Should women really be taking diet and fitness advice from someone who suffered from eating disorders until just recently?
FRANKEL WRITING SELF-HELP BOOK BUT WAS BROKE 2 YEARS AGO
Meanwhile, Frankel is writing a self-help book called A Place of Yes, where she'll purportedly dish advice on becoming personally and professionally successful and happy. Yet Bethenny has been called a pathological liar by her own mom (to whom she hasn't spoken in over 10 years), and was estranged from her dad before he died in Nov. 2009. So what would Frankel's advice on interpersonal relationships be?
In addition, Frankel -- who's building a mini-empire thanks to her best-selling diet book Naturally Thin and her spinoff reality show -- confessed that just 2 years ago she could barely afford to pay her rent. Since most people have little chance (and many have no desire) to chronicle and exploit every detail of their personal lives on TV for income, what would Bethenny's advice to aspiring entrepreneurs be?
Recently, Bethenny advised the cast of The Real Housewives of DC to keep their children off-camera so they don't turn into hot messes like the New Jersey kids, but the focus of her entire reality show is her five-month marriage to new husband Jason Hoppy and newborn 3-month-old daughter Bryn.
'YOU DON'T GO ON TV TO BE RICH FAMOUS AND SUCCESSFUL' (OH REALLY??)
Frankel also advised the DC Housewives to “not take themselves too seriously because none of this is that serious. Be true to yourselves and don’t manufacture who you want to be on the show."
She added: “It’s not fool’s gold — you don’t go on television to be rich, famous and successful . You have to have something to back it up.”
Yet Frankel has converted her reality tv notoriety into an exercise DVD, a best-selling diet book and her own spinoff, and recently announced that she wants to host her own talk show. Maybe Bethenny should change the title of her upcoming self-help book to Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
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Comments
this woman is a hot mess!
Nice floppy boobs and big hair, Bethenny.
Go spew your "off-topic" whining somewhere else.
Love, Get a Life
xo =)
Great article. You're so on point. Thanks! I always thought Bethenny was a con-artist. Fingers are crossed that she soon goes off to some obscure cooking show - preferably shown only on youtube - and stops with the dispensing of unsolicited 'advice' and commentary. Or becomes a stay at home mom so we won't have to see or hear her again. She's a menance to true working mothers everywhere - IMO.
She is plain trash -- just as simple as that. Used to be her #1 fan, not anymore. She is a filthy liar and manipulator. Now I understand why her father didn't want to have anything to do with her. Or why she really has no one who cares for her -- except the ones who are paid to do so.
I like Bethenney. I really don't understand all of the Internet vitriol directed toward her.
I don't understand much of the Internet vitriol directed against MANY tv personalities. I don't feel so personally involved, nor do I feel the necessity to take sides. That said, though, I REALLY dislike it when the ho'wives backstab each other, humiliate each other, or act like hypocrites when vilifying one or more ho'wives for the very behavior they or those who they make excuses for engage in. Every one of the NY housewives -including, and at tmes especially, Bethenny - does all of the above, except Sonja. My only issue with Sonja is her DUI.
I think your article is ridiculous. Showing a boob in an old movie scene HARDLY constitutes POSING NUDE! Big difference. Really is a big difference.
Some one who HAD and eating disorder and has managed to overcome it - knows more about food than you and I - I guarantee it. Food addicts are usually obsessively informed about food. She is sharing her knowledge and not concealing her past or how she gained this knowledge about food and eating.
She had a brand PRIOR to Housewives. She was a chef and had Skinny Girl. She is saying don't do the franchise to CREATE a career...she already had a career - she used the fame to EXPAND her brand. BIG difference.
Apparently she had a difficult childhood. She managed to make peace with her father before he passed. She again has learned from her experiences. If you believe her to be an honest person, you may enjoy her book and gain some insight. If you think she is estranged from her mother b/c you believe her mother (who no one knows) and Bethenny is a "pathological liar" - don't buy her book. I think most people find Bethenny believable. I think can;'t evaluate the mothers claimsseriously since we have never seen her .
This is a ridiculous attempt to slander a housewife by twisting half truths. Its ugly and unfair. Try using facts.
I'm a bit late, but I lost respect for her when she appeared on Avent's campaign for breast feeding, and then said she wasn't BFing anymore. She was this huge, judgemental breastfeeding advocate until it was inconvenient for her. She said it wasn't due to pain or medical reasons,but because she wanted her own body back. As a breastfeeding mom myself, I think it's insultung tot act like such a martyr for naturally feeding your child then turn around and say, "oh yeah, it wasn't fun or convenient anymore."
Especially for someone so into organic and natural food for herself, but she then gives her child second rate nutrition.
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