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Bethenny Frankel On Her Brutal Childhood & Making a Better Life for Baby Bryn
One of the things people can do with the past? They can learn from it and make sure not to make the same mistakes that their parents did. And that’s one very powerful thing that reality star, chef and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel can learn from her very unhappy childhood…she can make sure she what she went through when she was a child doesn’t happen to her daughter Bryn.
Bethenny Frankel spoke very frankly with Piers Morgan this week about her “brutal” childhood. She said although she :could have come up from a much worse upbringing,” she said there was a “lack of parenting.”
“It wasn’t easy; it was brutal,” she told Piers Morgan, she added that her childhood still has a major affect on her relationships today. “It is difficult, and it affects me and my life and my relationships now. It has come with me my whole life, the childhood that I’ve had, the lack of parenting.”
How bad was her childhood? “Alcohol abuse, eating disorders and violent fights” she said was a reality in her childhood home. Her mom, she claimed, was a bulimic and had issues with alcohol. In turn she said it became her “nature to run from relationships because I’ve never seen a good one so instead (now) I intervene, I stay in relationships, and I work on my relationship with my husband, and I go to therapy,” she said. “Breaking the chain is just about deciding the life you want to have, going forward, saying, ‘I can have the life I want it to be.’”
And this life includes making a good and loving home for her own family and her daughter Bryn.
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Lilly commented on Jun 29 11 at 12:37 pmI realize that everyone’s childhood is relative….but if the word “Brutal” is used to describe her childhood what word would you use to describe a person who grew up in a household with severe physical beatings, emotional neglect, and the worst verbal and psychological abuse a human can sustain?
I would hardly doubt that her mother, who in her first book Bethenny claims told her “she would do something big someday” (I’m not sure if she used those exact words) gave her those encouraging words, really despised her If she did indeed feel that her daughter had the potential to amount to something. Her mother may have been emotionally unstable and maybe even neglectful. But unless Bethenny wound up with bruises, broken bones, and, was told everyday of her life that she was a worthless piece of crap the word “brutal” cannot be accepted. She was also not for want of anything and was exposed to more affluent connections and a better lifestyle because of her father and stepfather’s connections than most people can hope to dream of in their own life. Most people cannot attend Pine Crest school, have the ability to travel the world, and own a condo on the upper east side of Manhattan (especially when she claimed she was broke) just to name a few things.
I have no respect for Bethenny Frankel. I don’t care how much money, fans or success she attains in her life. I see through women like her because I grew up with a few women/girls with her type of personality where they manipulate a situation in order to use people and claim to be victims so that others will boost them up and support them. And yes, these women get on my nerves to no end.
Personally, everyone’s idea of success in this world is completely different based upon their life and circumstances, and for me I find this woman completely inauthentic despite her crazy, ridiculous, die hard fans who find her to be the next best thing to God. It just goes to show you how many women are lost souls, followers and can’t think for themselves. Why don’t more women believe in themselves? It’s okay to admire certain characteristics in people that you may want to aspire to, but to bow down to another human like they are Jesus Christ does not make any sense to me whatsoever.
I have a fascination with women who are obsessed with reality stars and celebrities in general, and I find it to be quite odd that someone like a Bethenny Frankel is so consumed with being rich and famous that intrinsically she could give a rats a$$ about anyone but herself. Yet her fans don’t look at it that way. They see her as God. It’s so strange to me because despite the extreme amount of hardship in my life, I never idolized another human being on this earth. It’s one thing to admire someone from afar but to be so obsessed with another living person never made an ounce of sense to me.
I was curious to see her interview, and personally I think she is so repetitive, non-stimulating and quite shallow. And maybe her voice was so irritating that Piers Morgan couldn’t stand to listen to that noise any longer and couldn’t bear to let her go on talking. And for the record not every person on this planet thinks she is the next best thing since Jesus Christ. Definitely not me, and you can best believe that I am not affiliated with any of Bravo’s housewives shows as Bethenny’s fans would love to claim about anyone who is negative toward her.
Some people are successful, intelligent, talented and ambitious on their own without having to kiss the butt and bow down to others…especially a person who never comes across as sincerely, grateful, appreciative, humble or even thankful toward her husband, in-laws, etc. I mean for God sakes her mother-in-law lost a child in a sudden accident…now that to me is “Brutal”, and yet she has the nerve to keep on talking about her horrific past. Her in-laws seem like nice religious, moral people. I can’t imagine that any amount of fame, fortune and money brought into their lives because of this troll could make them truly love her. I could be completely wrong…but that’s my opinion.
Dolores Horine commented on Jul 31 11 at 7:17 amWhat does this women do? I’ve never heard of her.
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