Bethenny Frankel

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Bethenny Frankel (born c. December 1970) is a natural foods chef and was a candidate on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.

She is daughter of thoroughbred race horse trainer Bobby Frankel who is a member of the National Racing Hall of Fame, inducted in 1995, and is multiple Eclipse Award winner.

Bethenny was once a hotwalker for her father's stable and spent every summer at Saratoga Springs, New York for racing.

[edit] Career

Before she embraced the culinary arts, Frankel had a career producing large-scale events such as The Rock, Con Air, and Evita film premieres, the Emmy Awards, and the Grammy Awards. She also was part of a company called Princess Pashmina, which was the first to import shawls and distribute them to Hollywood celebrities.^[1]

Since Frankel's passion always been in health and healing, she attended the Natural Gourmet Cooking Institute in New York. After she graduated, she formed her company, Bethennybakes, which provides wheat-, egg-, and dairy-free baked goods, meals for private clients, and a custom-meal delivery service. Her clients include Michael J. Fox, Brooke Hogan, Alicia Silverstone, and Paris Hilton.^[2] Frankel also cooked for Survivor winners Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca when they rapidly gained unwanted weight after the show and she had to get them on the right track.^[3]

Frankel's biggest claim to fame came when she was one of 16 candidates in The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.^[4] She made it to the series finale before losing to Dawna Stone.^{[5] [6]}

Frankel has a column on health in Hamptons Magazine and has been featured in several other magazines, such as Life & Style, Gotham, OK!, Us Weekly, In Style, Star, and People. She has been featured in the The New York Times and New York Post.^[7] She is the new spokesperson for Pepperidge Farm's Naturals and Diet.com.^[8]

Frankel’s goal is to democratize health by making a healthy, balanced lifestyle accessible to everyone. She lives with her dog, Cookie, in New York City, where she is writing The Thin Book: The 25 Rules to Being Thin Without Dieting.^[9]

Frankel is one of the five women featured on Bravo's series The Real Housewives of New York City. ^[10]

[edit] Personal life

Frankel is in a happy relationship. She lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side in New York City.

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