‘Real Housewives’ Bethenny Frankel Shares Cause Of Weight Loss & Extreme Loneliness


Bethenny Frankel, one of the most popular Real Housewives Of New York (RHONY) stars for her tell-it-like-it-is style, is opening up about her personal life. As part of that discussion, Frankel discussed the cause of her weight loss, reports Yahoo.

Slimmer than before, Bethenny explained that the weight loss partly resulted from health problems ranging from cysts to fibroids. At 45, Frankel is aware that her medical issues were revealed in her appearance. But, before she was diagnosed, the Real Housewives Of New York star was baffled by why she constantly had black circles under her eyes.

Bethenny Frankel explains why she recently lost weight. [Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images]
“I was very anemic, and I had black circles for a year that I couldn’t understand,” recalled Bethenny. “No matter how much I slept, I couldn’t get rid of them.”

In addition to those circles, Frankel suffered from cramps and bleeding. She then learned that she had endometriosis, uterine cysts and fibroids. Although Bethenny had been diagnosed with endometriosis before, the pain started to increase. Along with the bleeding, Frankel finally headed to the doctor.

“I used to be a crier, and now I’m a bleeder. A stage five bleeder. It was very, very bad and graphic and just really brutal,” admitted the reality TV star.

“I went back to the doctor and he sent me for a sonogram, and basically said that my uterus had doubled in size and that I had lost almost 10 percent of my blood.”

After her doctor linked her pain to the fibroids that he measured, he explained that she “probably” had even more fibroids than he could view during the exam. Consequently, the physician advised Frankel to undergo a myomectomy to extract them.

“The scar seems worse than my C-section scar,” admitted Bethenny. “It’s in the same place, but…it’s not the greatest.”

And although her checkups will reveal the outcome of the surgery, the reality star emphasized that she finally feels better.

“It’s something that I can’t really see, so I don’t really know, but I feel better. I definitely feel better,” she stated.

Bethenny Frankel opens up about her recent health scare. [Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Skinnygirl Cocktails]
Although Frankel knows that others are commenting on her noticeable weight loss, she’s accustomed to attracting attention and comments after so many years in the spotlight.

“I’ve lost weight, so that’s maybe not the best. People are still commenting on that, but I did, so I understand why they are saying that. I’m used to it,” Frankel said, offering her philosophical attitude about the reality TV world.

“Don’t hate the player, hate the game. It’s part of it.”

Although the reality “game,” as Bethenny plays it, tends to focus away from showing her raw emotions, Frankel could not hide her heartbreaking loneliness when her medical crisis was at its peak. On an episode of RHONY, the 45-year-old was caught by the cameras weeping due to her sense of loneliness, pointed out the Daily Mail.

The subject of death was too much to handle, and Bethenny had problems controlling her tears when she was talking about the severity and possible outcomes of the surgery during a car drive home from her physician’s office.

“My doctor said it’s major surgery…I’ll be in the hospital for three days then it could be six weeks recovery, and he said, ‘You’ve got to have a living will,'” she wept.

Reflecting on her life, Frankel clarified the cause of her loneliness.

“I feel lonely…I don’t have parents, I don’t have brothers and sisters. I don’t have anybody.”

In addition, Bethenny had been cautioned that the possibility of a hysterectomy existed if too much blood was lost during surgery. The reality star has one child, a daughter Bryn Hoppy. And the fear that she would lose her life during surgery added to her fears.

“God forbid if something happened to me and she had to be with them, always, that’s my worst nightmare,” added the emotional reality TV star about the possibility that her daughter would need to move in with her ex Jason Hoppy.

[Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for ‘Bethenny’]

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