Eating Disorders: Skinnygirl Daily

Monday 22 October 2012

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Frankel is the only child of horse trainer Robert J. Frankel and Bernadette Burke. Her father was Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism. Her father left her mother when Frankel was four years old and when she was five, her mother married another horse trainer, John Parisella. She describes her childhood as difficult. Her biological father stopped supporting the family and her mother, Frankel says, "was always drinking" and often argued violently with her stepfather.Frankel attended The Saint Agnes School and graduated in 1988 from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she lived on campus. She attended the National Gourmet Institute for Healthy and Culinary Arts in New York City,^[5] New York University and Boston University.In September 2010, Frankel announced, that for personal reasons, she would not be returning to the The Real Housewives of New York City show.[12] In February 2011, Frankel starred in a follow up series, Bethenny Ever After which documented her first year of marriage and motherhood. In November, Frankel appeared on the ABC reality series Skating with the Stars, and was runner-up to the champion.