I hope this is not a big spoiler for anyone, but the answer is…
YES, Bethenny Frankel did get married!
To her cute fiance Jason Hoppy. And she was 8 months preggers. It was a zany and emotional episode that included some really romantic vows and Bethenny peeing in an ice bucket. I was on the edge of my seat wondering if she was going to castrate her wedding planner if the red velvet wedding cake wasn’t to her liking. (She liked it. PHEW.)
Bethenny has that way about her that is equally shocking and endearing. She is so much fun to watch and she seems to walk the line very well between just being herself and being a really great entertainer. (And she’s got some awesome one-liners.)
She started her reality television training on The Real Housewives of NYC in which she “played” a wannabe desperate housewife. We learned about her struggle to find the right guy and settle down. We watched her fight with the other women. (Team “Kelly is Crazy!”) We learned she didn’t have any close family ties. We watched her move from a natural food chef to a business diva with projects that included two best selling books, a fitness DVD, the creation of the Skinnygirl Margarita, and a national Peta campaign in which she posed nudie for a Times Square billboard. And, oh yeah, she was on the cover of last week’s PEOPLE magazine.
But the entire time we were witnessing the emergence of a true reality star, she remained relatable. She was candid. She cried. She was open. She was REAL.
Then, she got her own show: Bethenny Getting Married? Well, it’s a specialty show for now. I thought the short series would be over when she actually GOT married, but now the cameras are following along for the honeymoon. You have to give props to a woman who lets the cameras follow her to St. Bart’s for her honeymoon while she’s about to pop. (That episode airs this Thursday at 10 PM EST on Bravo TV.)
My hubbie met Bethenny when she came to our city for a Southern Women’s Show appearance last year. I am still kicking myself because I could not get out of kid wrangling to go and meet her. Hubbie did get me an autograph, but I would have loved to have met Bethenny in person. To shake her hand. Or to give her a hug. Or to just tell her she’s one cool chick. Now I probably won’t get the chance because she is on the path to being an even bigger star . (Bethenny Getting Married? was Bravo TV’s highest rated freshman series ever.)
I hope Bravo TV does give Bethenny a permanent show, because I’d love to watch her zip through her crazy world as a new Mama to baby girl Bryn.
Bethenny’s World.
There. You can steal that one, B. It’s on me.
