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In November, she competed in the reality competition series Skating with the Stars and finished in second place. In September 2010, Frankel announced her exit from The Real Housewives of New York City following its third season. The series premiere became Bravo's highest-rated one at the time, garnering 2.1 million viewers. In June 2010, Frankel starred in the Bravo reality series Bethenny Getting Married? (later retitled Bethenny Ever After), which documented her engagement and marriage to Jason Hoppy as well as the birth of their daughter. In 2008, Frankel began starring in the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City, which premiered in March on Bravo. The company, BethennyBakes, later went out of business in 2006, but Frankel remained a spokesperson for Pepperidge Farms low-calorie line. Frankel was one of two finalists on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. In 2003, Frankel started a baking business called 'BethennyBakes', focusing on 'healthy' cookies and meal delivery in New York City, which was featured on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, a reality competition series, in 2005. Her next entrepreneurial enterprise was re-selling pashmina scarves that she bought wholesale from an Indian manufacturer. Frankel used these connections to start her first company, called 'In Any Event', a party-planning business, which was short-lived. During this time, Frankel also worked as a production assistant on the set of Saved by the Bell. While she landed some small acting roles, she worked as a nanny to Paris Hilton and a personal assistant to Jerry Bruckheimer and Linda Bruckheimer. In 1992, Frankel moved to Los Angeles with hopes of being an actress. She attended the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, Boston University for two years, and graduated with a degree in psychology and communications from New York University. Frankel attended Catholic schools as a girl, and she graduated in 1988 from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she lived on campus. įrankel said she moved many times and attended multiple schools before going to boarding school. Her mother, Frankel says, 'was always drinking' and often argued violently with her stepfather. Frankel describes her childhood as difficult.

When she was five, her mother married horse trainer John Parisella, who is Italian and of the Roman Catholic faith. Her father left her mother when Frankel was four years old.

Her father was German-Jewish, whereas her mother was a Roman Catholic of Welsh descent. Frankel, a horse trainer, and Bernadette Birk, an interior designer.