Don’t mess with the Queen B.
Bethenny Frankel fired back at Joy Behar for the comedian’s comments about Frankel’s viral appearance at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit fashion show.
On “The View” last week, the panel reacted to a TikTok clip of Frankel, 54, explaining that she and the other women who walked the Miami, Florida, runway went through a lengthy glam process to look the way they did.
Bethenny Frankel walks in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway show in Miami, Florida, on May 31.
Joy Behar on “The View.”
A few days later, Frankel made another TikTok where she clapped back at Behar.
“So, Joy Behar took a swipe at me on ‘The View,'” Frankel began. “Whoopi mentioned I was talking about the show, saying that none of us looked the way that we looked two hours prior. It took a lot of work and glam teams. And Joy’s response was, ‘I appreciate her candor, but she has fake boobs.'”
Frankel claps back at Behar on TikTok.
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum explained that she got a breast lift around 20 years ago because she had “saggy” and “floppy” boobs in high school.
“So this is actually a lift, Joy,” Frankel sternly said.
Frankel during the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway show in Miami.
She continued: “But the thing that that show really illustrated was that women my age and older, women of a certain age, can live their lives freely with happiness and with joy, and that we’re not washed-up, miserable older women.
“I actually feel sorry for Joy that she hasn’t lived her life, or doesn’t seem to be living her life, with any joy,” Frankel added.
Behar backstage at her new play “My First Ex-Husband” on May 1.
“You have to be really miserable to take a swipe at something that is literally self-deprecating and literally leveling the playing field, saying, ‘Yeah, we all look like this, but we had a lot of work that day,'” the Skinnygirl founder stated. “But she had to kick someone when they were already saying they’re down.”
Frankel went on to accuse Behar of “painting the picture of the older, seemingly miserable, washed-up woman that all of us are trying to show that we aren’t.”
Frankel walks the runway at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show.
Frankel attends Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Kickoff Dinner on May 30.
“You keep being happy, you keep living your life, you keep being the example of a woman of a certain age that you would be proud of, and we have women like Joy Behar that remind us of who we don’t want to be,” Frankel concluded.
Behar steps out in New York City on March 19.
The reality star wowed fans when she strutted her stuff in several sexy bikinis, including a leopard-print one-piece, at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show on May 31.
Frankel in her leopard one-piece swimsuit.
She later addressed the discourse around her appearance on social media, telling her followers, “Listen, I can tell you with great certainty that every woman that was with me on that stage did not look that way two hours prior.”
Frankel also said there was “a lot of glam, a lot of contouring and a lot of lighting” before the women took the stage.
