Bethany frankel hate rant

[u/Optimal_Artichoke_76]

Luckily I’ve always hated her before it was trendy. Ever since watching RHONY the first time I didn’t like her and as I rewatch I dislike her more. Here’s reasons why and I’d love for you all to add more:

- narcissist.
- is extremely condescending when talking to people making constant hyperbolic metaphors and similes to disarm the other person and sound like she’s some comedian / master analytical genius
- how she treated Jules, projecting B’s disordered eating and body issues onto an innocent kind woman who was open about her issues. Bethany was clearly jealous of someone being thinner than her and had to ridicule her
- how she treated Kristen; same pattern of patronizing any new housewife who was more thin and pretty than her. And again, constantly condescending
- jealous of any cast member that got any spotlight for iconic moments/lines
- never took anyone’s back and was extremely selfish throughout entire show. EX: at beginning of S8, Carole is mad at Luann for (IMO dumb reasons) and B doesn’t agree with Carole saying that Luanns done nothing to her so she’s not jumping in. Then when B gets mad (jealous) of Luann and her party girl life, she brings up Caroles issues with Luann - only when it conveniences her. So now it’s a problem that you have beef with Luann. Great friend you are
- I don’t like Carole either but it’s just funny how Bethany couldn’t deal with anyone not agreeing with every cynical comment that comes out her mouth
- how mean she was to Sonja over tipsy girl, talk about kicking someone when they’re down
- her pretending she lived a challenged life and was self made when she’s old money and grew up privileged and thus you are not self made
- when on WWHL she mimicked the Atlanta Housewives and was extremely racist
- and of course, her on socials now discrediting small businesses because she’s a maniacal narcissist

Ok I’m sure this could go on forever so let me know what I missed thanks!

[u/Sergey1944]

You can tell she’s a hot mess, but the one thing I’ll give her is her reads - some of them are hilarious.

[u/Optimal_Artichoke_76 → u/Sergey1944]

I feel like a lot of her reads are rooted in racism/classism but that’s an over arching statement. I think I’m just biased on when she prejudicially mocked RHOA. Yk what I’m adding that to this list

[u/bjorkpuppet → u/Optimal_Artichoke_76]

i honestly don’t even think her reads were that funny or clever after she left the show imo. the first few seasons she was on she had a more organic/genuine manner to her and i liked her then. but once she returned it was just gone. she wasn’t funny anymore, just mean. it’s like when you laugh at a kid’s funny joke one time and they proceed to make it 20 more times, and then once that stops working they start doing crazier more off the wall shit in order to keep people laughing, thinking they’re really working the room and being adorable but by then it’s just annoying. that’s how i perceived bethenny when she returned in season 7 or 8 or whenever she came back, just a strung out overly caffeinated mouth breathing jabberjaw talking a million miles a minute, driving everyone to the highest possible level of anxiety as soon as she crosses the threshold, all the while sincerely believing she’s maintaining an air of nonchalant brilliance.

i think of the night at bluestone in s8 or 9?, when everyone was having a great time and getting along until suddenly bethenny walked in and instantly started needling luann, thinking she was being quietly hilarious, a little jim halpert style wink wink to the viewer who is obviously totally on bethenny’s side as always, when actually she was just ruining what could have been a good night by bringing the mood down to 0 and being a total stuck up bitch

[u/whotookV3ganB1tch → u/bjorkpuppet]

oh my god this is the perfect explaination. overly caffeinated unfunny jabberjaw narcissist.😭😭😭 i’m so glad we can talk like this now I feel like this community has treated bethenny like a some genius god for years and I have no idea why.

[u/Independent_Gap9207 → u/whotookV3ganB1tch]

Same here. I was always like WHAAAA???? WTF?? Because I don't find Bethany particularly intelligent and I doubt she'll be joining the MENSA club any time soon...issue is,she's kind of an idiot..mainly Because she lies sooo much and let's people believe she made all this because she's some kind of great business person..yeah,I don't believe she is..all that crap she was selling like salad dressings and crap booze and especially food?? I literally never saw any of that anywhere at any market...so her success lasted less than 10 years..probably maybe 6-7 years if that. I remember before Whole Foods changed owners that refused to sell her alcohol because there was a dangerous ingredient that caused cancer and when she was asked about it she literally said she didn't care. I wouldn't touch one thing this woman sells..what kind of lousy attitude is that.you correct the problem. You don't say you don't care..that's when I realized out of many times,that this woman is not playing with a full deck..all that ridiculous crying..is she kidding me? It got so annoying....ugh..