Bethenny Frankel is responding to critics.
The 54-year-old Real Housewives of New York City alum addressed her appearance during Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s Swim Week 2025 runway show in Miami over the weekend.
“So I guess we have to discuss what I looked like on that runway because the internet is so fascinated with my age, my weight, my face, my hair,” she began.
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“Listen, I can tell you with great certainty that every woman that was with me on that stage did not look that way two hours prior,” she continued, adding that there was “a lot of glam, a lot of contouring and a lot of lighting.”
She said she’s “never been vain,” and that in her normal life, she doesn’t wear makeup and prefers “to stay home.”
“I look like a train wreck most of the time,” she said. “That’s me. That’s what I want.”
Bethenny claimed she doesn’t do crash diets or have a workout routine but rather has a “good relationship with food and exercise,” although “it wasn’t always that way.”
She recalled being 25 pounds heavier in her early 30s due to being “fixated and obsessed” and stuck in a loop of binging and restricting.
“My body is natural. I don’t do weights. And the reason my body is natural is because the exercise I do and have always done for my body is natural. I’ll go months without exercise and definitely days without doing anything but I always come back to it,” she said.
“I want you to allow yourselves to have, but not beat yourselves up when you do indulge. And I want you to have a good relationship with food and exercise and that doesn’t mean being screamed at in a gym or beating yourself up and telling yourself that you have to kill yourself. You don’t. It’s healthier to just be healthy.”
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Source: justjared.com