Bethenny Frankel Dishes

Bethenny Frankel Dishes

Natural foods chef-turned-entrepreneurial superstar Bethenny Frankel, best known as the wise-cracking straight shooter and subsequent breakout star of the Real Housewives of New York on Bravo (which launched her spinoff hit, Bethenny Getting Married?), comes to Providence Saturday for a night of laughs, chats and moving moments. “It’s an emotional night,” she said just days before hitting the road. “It’s women talking about the different struggles we go through.” Frankel says that women have a tendency to beat themselves up, especially when it comes to body image, “and that’s what my whole brand is all about: solving women’s problems,” says the author of the New York Times best seller, Naturally Thin (Frankel released a follow-up, The Skinnygirl Dish, in December 2009). “I’ve done book tours and this an extended version of that, and much more fun,” she describes, adding that Saturday evening’s event at Veterans Memorial Auditorium is the perfect opportunity to get dressed up, head out of the house, and spend a girls night out with mothers, sisters, daughters and friends.

Health, Wealth & Happiness

The Skinnygirl Night Out tour is inspired by the starlet's signature brand, launched with the Skinnygirl Maragarita, an all-natural prepared margarita that created a buzz when viewers of Real Housewives wrote into the network to learn more about the 100-calorie cocktail (per 4 oz. serving). “I was focusing on my skin-care line, but you go where the fish are, and it’s just evolved,” Frankel explains, in her mile-a-minute dialogue. The Manhattan-based star, who lives a hectic lifestyle riding the wave of fame all while being a newlywed and mother to 8-month-old baby girl Bryn (which all unfolds on Bethenny Ever After, still in production), has just introduced the Skinnygirl Daily, a 30-day program featuring 100% natural, high fiber supplements packaged in single serving packets to add to water that comes with recipes and helpful tips in a recipe box (www.bethenny.com). A weight management and energy system is expected in March

along with a shapewear line, reportedly called 'Smoothers & Shapers,' to boost women’s confidence.

Unstoppable

Opening the doors of her apartment, exposing dysfunctional family ties, unveiling personal insecurities amid failed and successful relationships—her life—is what has made Frankel so appealing and approachable to viewers. “I’ve been filming for four years straight!,” she laughs. Her candor is what has propelled her fame, the cornerstone of Saturday’s Skinnygirl Night Out. “When you start out you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Frankel reflects on her earlier business endeavors. But she worked hard, proving it’s never too late for women to chase their dream, a lesson that’s inspired her forthcoming release in March, A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life, something she knows a thing or two about. “I didn’t really figure out what is going on with my life until I was 38, not that I was sitting around drinking beer all day,” she quips. “It’s like that story: a person asks ‘God, why didn’t I win the lottery?’ and God says, ‘Why didn’t you buy a ticket?’” Her advice? “Keep going for it …if you believe in yourself and what you’re doing, you have a good shot of getting it done.”

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Skinnygirl Night Out, A Conversation with Bethenny Frankel, is Saturday, January 15 at 8pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence. For tickets and information, click here.

Photo, top right, by Sergio Kurhajec; at left, courtesy Bravo TV