Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel (born November 4, 1970) is an American TV personality, author, entrepreneur, and natural foods chef. She has appeared on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, The Real Housewives of New York City and was the subject of the TV shows Bethenny Getting Married? and Bethenny Ever After. She is the founder of Skinnygirl Cocktails, the author of four self-help books and the host of the TV series, Bethenny. Frankel is the only child of horse trainer Robert J. Frankel and Bernadette Burke. Her father was Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism. Her father left her mother when Frankel was four years old and when she was five, her mother married another horse trainer, John Parisella. She describes her childhood as difficult. Her biological father stopped supporting the family and her mother, Frankel says, "was always drinking" and often argued violently with her stepfather. Frankel attended The Saint Agnes School and graduated in 1988 from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she lived on campus. She attended the National Gourmet Institute for Healthy and Culinary Arts in New York City, New York University and Boston University. Frankel began her TV and film