Real Housewives’ Kelly Bensimon Attacks Bethenny Frankel Again
The Real Housewives of New York star Kelly Bensimon hasn’t put away her cat claws.
In May’s Harper’s Bazaar, she attacks Bethenny Frankel (again) for saying she has an “inauthenticity” to her in an early episode of the Bravo show.
“Is Bethenny a socialite? No.” Bensimon, 40, says. “Will she ever sit next to [socialite] Lauren DuPont? No. Is she best friends with [Estee Lauder Senior Vice President] Aerin Lauder? No. Am I? No. Do I care? No. Does she? Oh, absolutely. She’s not authentic.”
“All she does is sit there and cry all the time,” she continues. “I’m like, You’re crying about guys? And shut up.”
Wait, there’s more.
“Honestly, if being inauthentic means graduating from Columbia University, writing three books, starting two magazines, bearing two children [daughters Sea, 10, and Teddy, 8], being the ambassador for wool, running a marathon for charity — if that’s inauthentic? Tell me what authentic is,” she says.
In an email to Usmagazine.com, Frankel, 38, laughs off Bensimon’s remarks: “Who is Lauren DuPont? The only person I want to hang out with is Jill Zarin.”
Benismon — who faces a misdemeanor assault charge after she allegedly punched her ex-boyfriend, Nick Stefanov — also says she has some regrets about appearing on the show.
“One of the worst things about putting yourself out there is exposing yourself to situations you never dreamed would be a reality,” she says.
Still, asked if she could be anyone else for a day, she replies, “I would be me. Every single day. With criticism, without criticism. Just to be me. Because what’s so bad about that?”
June 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
She didn’t graduate from Columbia, she can barely string a sentence together, she graduated from a continuing education program offered, think one step up from the Learning Annex and you’d be pretty close to what the curriculum was in her program. She’s a gossip string, who’s run out of alimony money from her MUCH older husband. She’s a ding bat at best and a really nasty Clingon to much more accomplished people, mostly men at worst.
Women hate her because she’s a complete phony who uses people to get ahead. But that leathery face and horrific boob job have caught up with her. She’s just old looking with nothing much going on career wise. She’s got to work, the money train pulled out of the station, and once that old sugar daddy Bensimon dies she’s gonna be broke. She knows it too.
At the very least Bethanny is smart and hard working, she didn’t use her womb for 18 years of checks from a man in his 70′s who’s more like a grandfather than a father. Ugh.