Real-Life Love
Will Bethenny Frankel Get Married Again? She Spills the Latest on Her Love Life
Bethenny Frankel feels like she’s at her peak right now — she recently walked on Fashion Week and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runways — but is romantic love one of her metrics of success?
The Real Housewives of New York alum recently opened up about her changes in her life. Earlier this year, she uprooted from Connecticut to Florida with her daughter and dogs. She was feeling lonely in her old spot, where she originally moved to for a relationship. Now that she’s settled in Miami, however, the isolation has “one hundred percent” been lifted. Does that mean the reality star has a new special someone in her life?
While the 54-year-old isn’t ruling out love, she hasn’t been dating since her move. “I’ve been celibate,” she told Us Weekly. “I’m not saying I think of myself as some hot commodity, but I do have several men pursuing me, and they think we’d be great for each other, so they’re trying to sort of push me to go out with them. But I know that either they’re too short, too tall, they’re not successful enough in their career, they don’t live in a place I want to live or visit… Like, I get to choose.”
At this stage in Frankel’s life, she’s learned from her past experiences with relationships. “I’m not wasting any time with any of this bulls**t unless it’s a bull’s-eye,” she said. “I’d rather be alone with a vibrator. I’ve got my kid, my friends. I’ve got my house. I’ve got my freaking cocktails. Get out of here. Go away.”
Still, the entrepreneur hasn’t sworn off marriage entirely, despite claiming exactly that amidst her years-long divorce battle with Jason Hoppy. First, she changed her marriage stance with her ex, Paul Bernon, when they got engaged in 2021. They called it quits in 2024, and later that year, she was linked to Paul Villante. It appears, however, that she’s officially flying solo in 2025.
However, marriage might still be in the cards. Frankel’s change of heart has to do with her 15-year-old daughter, Bryn, whom she shares with Hoppy. “I want [marriage] for my daughter,” she said. “We had a family scare this week with my dogs and the four of us are a little quarantine. She’s like, ‘I love my mom and I love my family.’ I want it for her, but I’m not gonna do it for the wrong reason.”
For now, though, Frankel is prioritizing her relationship with her daughter over all others. “She’s 15, and she wants to be with me so much and spend the day with me and we love each other and have such a great relationship,” she said, adding that she was planning on taking a day off to spend time with her.
“I really don’t ultimately care about work,” she said. “All this is fun and it’s great, and it’s gravy and it’s frosting and it’s sprinkles. That’s why you have to pay me a lot to go somewhere, not because I think I’m Madonna, but because you’re competing with me being with my kid.”
