Bethenny Frankel wears ring on engagement finger as she flaunts swimsuit body amid Tom Villante romance-quang

Paul and Bethenny first struck up their romance in 2018 and remained together for two years before they split near the end of 2020, only to reunite early in 2021

Wearing her signature dark hair down, she accessorized with a fashionably wide-brimmed straw hat by Chanel and a set of large black sunglasses 

Bethenny has a 14-year-old daughter called Bryn Hoppy by her second and latest ex-husband Jason Hoppy, with whom she slogged through a nearly nine-year custody battle

Bethenny, who once had a yearlong marriage to her friend Peter Sussman in the 1990s, released a self-help book on love in 2016 in the midst of her divorce proceedings with Jason

Co-written with Eve Adamson, the book was cheekily entitled I Suck At Relationships So You Don't Have To: 10 Rules For Not Screwing Up Your Happily Ever After

Paul and Bethenny first struck up their romance in 2018 and remained together for two years before they split near the end of 2020, only to reunite early in 2021.

The couple joyfully announced their engagement in March 2021, with Bethenny later revealing that Paul proposed at 'Little Palm Island, a small private hotel on a Florida island in the Florida keys.'

Bethenny has a 14-year-old daughter called Bryn Hoppy by her second and latest ex-husband Jason Hoppy, with whom she slogged through a nearly nine-year custody battle.

Jason and Bethenny were married in 2010 and separated in 2012 - but only in December 2021 did he agree to end the 'toxic environment' of their years-long legal struggle.

During an emotional virtual family court hearing that month, a judge agreed to let Bethenny stop paying Jason child support, according to a report in Page Six.

Although the parents technically had equally split custody, Bethenny and her lawyer had argued she was the primary guardian in practice inasmuch as Bryn stayed with her more. 

Bethenny had maintained that 'I want her to see her father' but insisted that her daughter 'is a living, breathing thing and she won't always go.' 

She and her attorney said that the protracted custody battle had helped cause Bryn to hyperventilate, experience anxiety and break out in hives.

She was first seen with Tom in September as they enjoyed a date in Santa Monica, and at the start of November they went red carpet official at the Yellowstone premiere (pictured) 

Jason was unrepresented at the hearing where he declared that 'I'm removing myself of this fight - for Bryn and my physical, emotional and mental health.'

After he and Bethenny broke up at the end of 2012, they underwent a rancorous divorce process that included the ugly public legal wrangling over their daughter.

Jason, an entrepreneur, spent years fighting with Bethenny over her assets before a financial arrangement was apparently finally agreed upon in 2016.

However, the drama continued - Jason was arrested and charged with fourth degree stalking and second degree harassment of Bethenny in 2017, and she sued him for full custody of Bryn in 2018.

An acrimonious legal battle ensued, in which Bethenny sensationally confessed that she had called Jason 'white trash' and threw water on him as he slept.

Paul and Bethenny reportedly went their separate ways around March, but she nevertheless kept the estimated $1 million engagement ring he gave her, a source told Us Weekly 

Jason also questioned Bethenny's judgement as a parent after her on-off boyfriend Dennis Shields died of a suspected opioid overdose in his Trump Tower apartment in 2019.

The divorce was only finalized in January 2012, which meant that the entire process took about eight years - four times as long as the marriage lasted before Jason and Bethenny separated.

Bethenny, who once had a yearlong marriage to her friend Peter Sussman in the 1990s, released a self-help book on love in 2016 in the midst of her divorce proceedings with Jason.

Co-written with Eve Adamson, the book was cheekily entitled I Suck At Relationships So You Don't Have To: 10 Rules For Not Screwing Up Your Happily Ever After.