This B stings back.
Bethenny Frankel walked the catwalk for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show for the second time — and she’s hitting back at the haters.
Despite landing a spread in this year’s issue, the 55-year-old former reality star caught flack for her age, body and overall decision to participate in the Miami Swim Week event.
“Let’s discuss the Sports Illustrated experience,” Frankel began a Tik Tok video on Tuesday.
“It is so fun because of the women,” she said, adding, “it’s just all shapes, sizes, heights, ages, races, backgrounds … just amazing women.”
Though former “Real Housewives of New York” star said, “everyone is a little nervous in some way,” she qualified, “I’m not going to try to be a model. I’m just going to be me and have fun.”
She continued, “Now I know how old I am. I didn’t think about it until last year when everyone made such a big deal about it.”
The Skinnygirl addressed those who have suggested she’s too old to walk the runway in a swimsuit, quickly stating, “Why [do it]? Because I’ll do whatever the f—k I want.”
“Your ass is Jell-O,” she said, parroting haters. “It is Jell-O,” she replied, continuing, “I’ve told you f—king 27,000 times … I don’t work out and I don’t want to. I walk. So was I going to do squats for six months? No. Because I’m not that vain.”
She also called her boyfriend, Shane L. Campbell, a “stage-dad,” sharing that he thought she was the “belle of the ball,” and said that her 16-year-old daughter, Bryn Hoppy, “loved the black bondage bathing suit the most.”
“I’m happy. People are allowed to be happy,” she pointedly concluded as she directly addressed the internet trolls and haters who say she’s too old.
Back in April, she exclusively told Page Six Style, “I feel like I’m showing up for women my age in a very real way.”
“There’s this narrative that we’re somehow past our prime, and I just don’t subscribe to that,” she added.
On the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party red carpet last month, she told us, “To be truthful, the journey is more exciting than the destination. Just doing it, doing it for moms.”
“People walk up to me on the street like, ‘Thank you.’ I’m like, ‘You’re welcome,’” she added.
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