Bethenny Ever After: SOLD!

Recaps

By Honey Gangsta | Friday, May 13, 2011 | 4:03 pm | 21 Comments
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Well here we are at the season finale of Bethenny Ever After.  I have mixed emotions about our gal after watching these 11 episodes.  She’s really quite a mess, but at least she knows that and (mostly) keeps a sense of humor – at least in hindsight.  Let’s see how she wraps things up!

onstage again.bea.5.9.11“So I ruined my own birthday party. It happens.”

So we’re back on the Skinny Girl tour at our first sold out show.  Bethenny explains that she loves hearing women’s reactions to her stories and hearing their stories as well, so in order to have a dialogue she is going on a speaking tour.  She walks out on stage to everybody screaming for her and she takes a picture of the audience with her cell phone.  That’s cute.  The stage is set up exactly like she is there to sit down and have a chat with everyone.  There’s a rug and a little table set with flowers, a glass of water, and of course, a Skinny Girl margarita.  She sits in a chair next to the table and does her thing – which is to talk about her book.

Bethenny on stage.bea.5.9.11“Coming from a place of yes… is very complicated. You may not understand.”

To us, she says that one of the world’s biggest liquor companies wants to buy Skinny Girl.  I learned on WWHL that it’s Jim Beam.  To her tour audience she talks about trying to get these liquor companies to take an interest in her Skinny Girl idea a couple of years ago and that none of them were the least bit interested.  Yeah, most major corporations won’t take a risk on something that isn’t guaranteed to make them a ton of money.  So becoming a reality star and forming her own consumer base of fans, then producing the drink herself was really the only way to get them to take notice.  That’s just how big business is.  Take note, anyone with a great idea.  She talks about being the only woman in this male-driven industry (liquor).  She tells her audience that she’s inappropriate and so are they.  They love her.  She can be very endearing.  She spends some time answering questions from the audience, which is a great idea because it makes all these women who have helped to make her a success feel like she cares and that she has a personal connection with them.  It looks like a fun show to go to.  Or perform at.  Maybe I’ll give one of these shows and all of you glorious readers can come ask me questions about being a couch potato.  HOLLA!

Later on the tour bus Jason and some of the staff bring pizza.  Bethenny wants to wake Dawa up to give her some and she talks about how different Dawa is from Gina.  I guess Gina ate whatever she wanted all the time and Dawa never eats anything.  Everyone on the bus puts on a snuggie and chills out on the way to Philadelphia.  Bethenny has an eye mask that looks like closed sheep eyes and she says that when she puts it on the lambs start screaming.  Ha ha ha.

Bethenny sleeping.bea.5.9.11“I better not hear anyone going into the bathroom!”

Well look who’s waiting to greet the Skinny Girl bus in Philadelphia.  The Hoppys!  They are jumping up and down with excitement to see the bus pull up and they are so congratulatory and ecstatic to see it up close and personal.  These people are seriously Bethenny’s biggest fans.

The Hoppys.bea.5.9.11“Bethenny for President!”

They all have lunch and Bob and Carol ask her questions about the show and about the Skinny Girl sale.  We learn that Bethenny will maintain a large control over the company even after it’s sold – that’s part of the deal.  They’re very excited for her and even more excited to watch Bryn eat.  They’re so tickled with Bryn eating food off of Bethenny’s spoon that they get out the camera and start snapping pictures.  What cute grandparents.

Backstage at Bethenny’s next show Julie and Jackie the intern are hanging out with Bethenny talking about life on the bus.  It seems that Jackie has been so nervous about not being allowed to poop on the bus that her entire digestive track has backed up and she can’t poop anywhere now.  Well at least the bus smells nice!  Jason’s parents are going to be in the audience tonight and Bethenny brings up how sweet they are and how they love everything.  She says that Jason’s dad is always saying that everything is awesome.  “That was awesome, you were awesome!”

Bethenny backstage.bea.5.9.11“Bob just texted me about his awesome new phone.”

The next shot is the Hoppys coming into the dressing room and the first thing out of Bob’s mouth?  “Bethenny, you are AWESOME!”  LOL.  Jason’s friend Riccio has come along for the show as well.  Bob says the crowd is awesome.

The set up tonight is the same as before, with the homey little set and the casual chatting.  Bethenny tells the audience that all the important people in her life are from Pennsylvania.  Just then some ushers bring Jason and his parents down the aisles to their seats and the crowd freaks out.  Bethenny shares that the new title they’ve settled on for Julie is Coordinator of Chaos, the acronym for which is COC, which she finds highly amusing.  You know – I brought my COC, ask my COC, call my COC. Then she goes into one of the “lessons” she has in her book, which is called “break the cycle.”  This means making the decision to have the life you want to have, instead of the life you were born into.  For example, when Bethenny was pregnant with Bryn, her friend told her she knew Bryn would be a girl because Bethenny was going to break the cycle – the cycle of bad mother/daughter relationships she grew up with.  This is great advice for people who had crappy childhoods.  You don’t have to have a crappy whole life.  And your kids don’t have to have crappy childhoods.  I myself had a lovely childhood (thanks to my mother breaking HER cycle), so I hope to continue the cycle instead of break it.  During the question and answer section, a girl stands up and asks for advice on how to deal with her new in-laws because she’s really struggling with them.  Bethenny tells her that dealing with things you don’t want to deal with is part of life.  And these are not the people who raised you so there’s going to be an adjustment period.  The girl specifically then asks what Bethenny thinks of the Hoppys – even though they are sitting right there.  They’re all cute about it and cover their ears.

Hoppys in the audience.bea.5.9.11Bethenny proceeds to tell the audience how the Hoppys have no boundaries.

Just kidding!  To her credit, Bethenny says they’re the kindest people she knows, but when they’re together all the time it’s an adjustment because they’ve all had each other for 40 years and she’s just coming into the picture.  And they have to adjust to her life and this crazy career she’s got going.  That was some balanced perspective from her about that.

When she walks offstage, Carol is standing there.  She grabs Bethenny and hugs her for a long time and tells her how wonderful she was.  It makes Bethenny cry.  Jason says he likes to see Bethenny’s walls coming down with his parents.

After show hugs.bea.5.9.11“We’re still not coming over for Halloween, though.”

She tells us that their relationship is growing and that she loves them.  That’s sweet.  I really do hope she continues to appreciate them because this is exactly the love she missed out on growing up.

And now the bus is off to Delaware!  Jason sits down with Julie and tells her to pretend he’s a reporter and that Bethenny will never hear anything she’s about to say.  He wants to know what it’s like working for Bethenny.  At first Julie just says, “It is what it is.”  Wow, glowing praise! When pressed, she says the hardest part is having to be “on” all the time.  She says the first three months of Bethenny’s pregnancy was the very worst.  Apparently Bethenny hated everyone during that time.  Julie says if Bethenny gets pregnant again she wants a three month sabbatical.  Then she says that she recognizes that when Bethenny is freaking out about this or that, it’s really Bethenny’s problem, not hers.  That’s true, but such a hard thing to remember when the person who signs your paycheck is making your life miserable.  Jason actually high fives her on this one.

Julie and Jason chat.bea.5.9.11“But getting the COC title makes everything worth it!”

See, it’s good that Julie and Jason recognize this, but I have very little patience for people who think everybody should act according to their own emotional whims.  I mean people like Bethenny, people who are bosses.  We’ve all worked for someone like this, amirite?  If they’re having a bad day, everyone pays.  It’s not professional.  We all have bad days, but the people I’m impressed with are the ones who don’t take it out on those around them and conduct themselves professionally in spite of their emotions.  I learned a long time ago that no one is responsible for my emotions except for me and I don’t get to just let them run wild and shrug that everyone else just has to deal with it.  And I know this is Bethenny’s own business and she can run it however she chooses.  I’m just saying that type of approach doesn’t go far with me.  I wouldn’t take Julie’s job for ANYTHING.  My sanity means too much to me.

And onto the next show!  A few minutes before going onstage Bethenny has to go to the bathroom.  She’s not sure if she has enough time, but Jason convinces her to go.  She has to go up some stairs and down a hallway and she can’t find it.  Eventually she comes across what looks like a little airplane bathroom – it even has one of those awkward folding doors.

looking for bathroom.bea.5.9.11Bethenny suddenly remembers joining the mile high club.

I don’t think this lasted very long, but we keep getting shots of the audience making it look like they’re waiting and waiting for her to come out onstage.  For this show, she comes from the back of the auditorium and high fives audience members on her way up to the stage.

high fiving.bea.5.9.11“Who’s ready to be inspired?”

This time we get a snippet of her talking about meeting Jason and how he came up to her and asked her if she was ready to get the stick out of her ass.  It also turns out that Jason was on a date that night with a Sports Illustrated model.  Huh.  She talks about needing to get to a place where you are happy with the idea of always being on your own before you will meet the person you’re going to be with.  That’s really hard.  I mean, I believe it’s vital to be happy with yourself and know who you are before being in a relationship, but I don’t know that I could have ever gotten to a point where I gave up the idea of falling in love and was just content to be on my own.  It’s tough.  Anyway, more on that at the Conversation with Honey Gangsta show.

For now it’s back to NYC with the entire Skinny Girl tour.  On the bus Jackie the intern brings up that she’d like to be known as the COC in training, now that she’s now longer the intern.  Bethenny loves it.  As do 12-year-old boys everywhere.

Dr. Amador!  How have you been, good sir?  Today Bethenny would like to talk about the sale of Skinny Girl.  She says that she doesn’t care so much about the money now that she’s so happy with her family.  She’s a bit worried about raising Bryn in a very privileged way, seeing how Jason grew up with not much material-wise, but a lot of love.  Another thing that’s on her mind is her father, and how he never had as much success as she’s having right now.  It makes her happy because he was always trying to best her.  She would like for him to be alive so that he could hear about her success and kind of eat his heart out.  Oh right.  People like that always find some way to diminish whatever it is that happens to others.  Her dad doesn’t sound like the type who would ever congratulate her – he would find a bunch of reasons why whatever she’s doing is flawed.  Dr. Amador reminds Bethenny that this is also her finally feeling like she’s worthy of her dad’s love.  Yes, but again, the problem with people like her dad is THEY never let you feel like you are worthy.  No matter what you do.

Later Jason and Bethenny are taking a walk in the snow and Bethenny wonders if there will be an email when they get home regarding the Skinny Girl sale.  She asks if the deal is final, will they run off and celebrate right away?  Jason, ever the levelheaded one, says not to consider the deal done until the money is in the bank.  Then he pulls out his cell phone to see if there’s an email.

Checking the email.bea.5.9.11“Guess what, mommy.”

There is!  But he won’t read it to her.  He just says that the subject is “final offer.”  Bethenny gets out her phone and Jason won’t let her look.  He says they have to go home and pull it up on the computer.  She keeps wanting to look or call someone and he won’t let her.

At home Jason reads the email and tells Bethenny she’s going to be a very rich woman.  They never say how much the offer is, but we learned through the media that it was 120 million dollars.  Jason is all calm, telling Bethenny that this will allow her to be selective and do what she wants.  We get a couple of flashbacks to early RHONY episodes where Bethenny was in the infant stages of this enormous venture.  We see the Countess condescending to her very first Skinny Girl margarita, among other things.  Now Bethenny is in tears thinking about how much has happened in the last year.  Nothing is the same as it was a year ago.  And now she wants to take a deep breath.

crying at the news.bea.5.9.11…If she can stop crying long enough.

Jason mentions the little girl in the other room and how she has no idea about any of this.  But what a story to tell her when she’s old enough.  They won’t even have to tell her, Dawa can just play her the dvd’s.

Jason has one more thing for Bethenny.  He walks out with a flat rectangular box and Bethenny says he’s acting like he’s about to show her the crown jewels.

Jason's gift.bea.5.9.11“You look like you could use what’s in this box…”

It does look like he’s going to present her with diamonds or something, but when she opens it, it’s their wedding album.  Oh my gosh, that is so sweet!  We just got our wedding album last month.  I swear it feels like they have to be ordered from Mars, that’s how long it takes to get them.  But I could stare at that thing for hours, just remembering the emotions of the day and seeing them so plainly on our faces.  It’s so nice that Jason handed her that book just now, as if reminding her that their family is more important than anything else, and it’s beautiful and simple.  Bethenny says that getting through a year of marriage isn’t easy, and anyone who tells you it is easy is full of it because it’s a lot of work.  I can only speak for my own new marriage, but this last year has been one of the simplest, easiest ones of my life.  Without making you barf, I’ll just say that having my favorite person around all the time has been very comforting and lovely.  We don’t have a baby, though, so it’s a different situation.  We are DINKs (dual income, no kids) and it’s fabulous.  Anyway, back to the show.  They look through their book together and enjoy this moment.  It’s a nice way to end the season.  Bethenny says, “And they lived happily ever after.”  Awwwww.

looking at the wedding book.bea.5.9.11“Remember when your buddies trashed the Four Seasons? That was funny.”

So that’s it!  That wraps up our season of watching Bethenny as a newlywed.  I really went back and forth on my annoyance level with her through this – mostly proportionate to the number of tantrums she threw.  I like that she ended on a high note.  What do you guys think?

As always, I love hearing from you guys and your opinions on all of this.  My favorite part is inspiring all of you – ha ha ha ha ha!  But seriously, I love you guys.

Thanks for reading!
-Honey Gangsta

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21 Comments

  1. 1
    Robin Robinez
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Betheny is being sued. Somebody always has to come out of the woodwork..

    http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/05/bethenny-frankel-sued-over-skinnygirl-cocktail

  2. 2
    Honey Gangsta Honey Gangsta
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I saw that!!! It’s her former managers. What a nightmare.

  3. 3
    Robin Robinez
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    I know the honeymoon isn’t over! We would ask you about how it feels to be a brand new bride! A Newlywed!

    OK, back to reading.

  4. 4
    Robin Robinez
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Thanks Honey. You made me cry. Great recap.

    Hugs, Robin

  5. 5
    Roger Rhodes
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Roger connrxt me TY

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    baymenxpac
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    honey gangsta, congrats on the nuptials! i’m about to know the feeling myself. my fiancee and i are due to tie the knot july 30th! great job on the recaps :)

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    Bridget
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 4:26 am

    The whole skinny girl margarita just kind of pisses me off because all Bethany did was bottle a normal fucking margarita. A traditional margarita has very few calories and yet some how Bethany was able to turn it into her own “unique” creation. Oh well someone had to do it and good for her for making money off of idiots. Well I guess it isn’t that admirable to take advantage of people’s need to blindly worship someone, something, anything. I tasted some skinnygirl margarita, there were free samples of it at the liquor store, and it was disgusting. It tasted like chemicals. I can’t believe she got paid $112 million for that shit.

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    featherhead
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 6:11 am

    @HG, I just wanted to tell you that I don’t like this “DINKS” crap, cause using this acroynm, I would be considered an “OINK” (one income, no kids) and that’s just not right I tell you! Loved the recap and kinda sad this was the season finale. Although, it was really good for a finale. Wonder what next season will bring?

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    Jazzy
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 7:55 am

    Haha Bridget – I’ve been wondering what’s so great about the skinnygirl margarita. I guess nothing. Who is buying it anyway?? It did give me a moment of pleasure, though, to imagine how the Countess reacted when she learned that Bethenny is now very wealthy. ha!
    Bethenny was endearing in this episode which was nice to see. Is it just the editing or is she finally showing some personal growth? Hard to tell.
    I agree with you, HG, my first couple years of marriage were the easiest and happiest of my life. What does she think is so hard? She has a husband who adores her, a nanny and a personal assistant to help her with anything that might trouble her. And I TOTALLY agree with you about her emotions. Jason and Julie are nice people but they are enablers. Bethenny has surrounded herself with people that will revolve around her and make allowances for however she wants to act. It’s so not cool.
    Very interesting that Jason was out with a model when he picked B up. Is he a golddigger? Ditching the model for a woman that is even more famous? Did he start working on skinnygirl so if they split up he gets a cool half of that money? Interesting

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    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 10:20 am

    I’m pretty sure Jason and Bethenny have a prenup. Remember back in the beginning of the season, Bethenny told Jason that if she died, she was leaving all of her money to Bryn, just so that Jason couldn’t spend it on another woman. I honestly believe her, She’s controlling enough to try and control Jason…from the grave. Jason also said something about the Skinnygirl sale like, “You’re a rich woman now”, not “We’re rich!” I bet she pays him a salary to work for Skinnygirl, and that’s it.

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    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 10:56 am

    I agree with Bridget’s take on Skinny Girl, even though I can’t comment on its taste, since I’ve never tried it. But it’s not like the Skinny Girl margarita is some secret elixer that only comes from that frosted bottle–Bethenny has given out the recipe for anyone to mix their own and have it fresh.

    The plant was cranking out 30,000 cases a week when it was only being sold in 40 states. There are twelve bottles to a case, so that’s almost 19,000,000 bottles a year which will fall short when they expand to 50 states. That kind of demand simply can’t last, so she was so lucky to have a rich buyer to pay her off before the bloom is off the rose. It’s the Bravo show and her tireless self-promotion that are driving demand, and that’s good for the short term only. Every talk show that she appears on lets her drag a bottle of Skinny Girl out on stage with her, and she appears to be promoting the idea that her fans should always have a glass of her margarita in hand much like all the Bravo Housewives have glasses of wine. So I’m asking how many hard-core Bethenny fans there are that will continue to suck down a few bottles of her cocktail every week? There can’t be that many.

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    Libithina
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 10:57 am

    Oh man, I feel like a loosah. I love the drink and get so disappointed when my liquor store runs out. It’s not too pricey (less than $15) and I can’t drink it like wine, so I consider it a bargain, since I can easily go through a bottle of wine in 2 hours.

    Good for her, she earned every stinking penny of that deal. I love watching old RHONYC and seeing the difference between Bethenny then and now. She really hustled and it’s encouraging that it paid off.

  13. 13
    2muchbravo
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 11:31 am

    I have a bottle in my fridge. It’s about half full. Yeah, margaritas are not the most difficult to make but it is less sweet than the prefab mixes. So, she was right about tapping into a market where women wanted a cocktail but not all the calories from the mixer ingredients. Having said that, I admit that I add half a shot of marg mix in addition to the Skinnygirl. Good point, though, crankyguy.

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    Alison Zimmerman
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    I watched WWHL on Thursday night and Krazy Kellie said that by Bethanny selling Skinny Girl, it was a good testimate to Bravo. I was like WTF are you talking about crazy! Get off my tv! Andy was abit confused too.

    She says that she is going to slow down, but I don’t think that she will! She is going to go just as hard, but on something else. Another book, more of her shapewear..who knows! All I know is that Bryn is adorable! A very well behaved baby!

    Oh, and I for one have never tasted the Margarita. I don’t even know if I am one of the 40 states that it is sold in! Its funny how when B was on WWHL last Sunday, she could not state how much money she had made from the sale…I have heard it was 120 mil all they way up to 175 mil…

  15. 15
    NYQUEEN
    Posted May 14, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    @Jazzy I agree B does surround herself with people who make it all about her. That is where that bitch went wrong cause another woman is going to pick Jason up and make it all about him and his wants and needs. After cheating on her he is going to blame her it on her for not paying enough attention to him. I doubt there was a prenup involved when they married.

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    kczar
    Posted May 15, 2011 at 2:55 am

    At least this lawsuit should discredit this ridiculous idea that Fortune Brands bought SGM for 120 million. That’s just impossible. That figure came from an “unnamed source” and has never been confirmed. The press release from Fortune said annual sales were 100,000 cases or 900,000 bottles. It’s being retailed at around $15 a bottle so wholesale price may be $10 or $12. That’s 10.8 million dollars a year. Buyout offers are usually three times annual revenue, or around 32 million.

    I’m sure Betthany’s and David’s offer included salary guarantees for a certain number of years, stock options, profit sharing, etc. I highly doubt that’s going to add up to 120 million. Plus, remember she was in a 50/50 partnership. And they certainly didn’t just write her a big check. It’s probably going to be disbursed on some kind of schedule.

    Look, good for her for creating a product, marketing the hell out of it and getting bought out by a company with the capital to really push it to the next level. But let’s not kid ourselves that business works like a fairy tale. Girlfriend is rich but not as rich as a lot of people just assume.

    Honey, I like your recap for the most part. However, I hope there’s a lot more snark in next season’s recap. Betthany would approve!

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    Bridget
    Posted May 15, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Here is the other thing that has me baffled. Is the whole baby nurse right into a nanny. As soon as Bethany brough Bryn home the baby nurse was there, and as soon as Gina left there was a nanny. I understand that Bethany may be a bit nervous about taking care of Bryn especially since she doubts her ability to be a mother. But I get it. These rich women have these kids, but at every step of the way they have another woman there to take care of their kids. It is weird to me.

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    Bridget
    Posted May 15, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    @Libithina: if you haven’t already. I encourage you to try a tradtion margarita made with fresh squeezed lime, quality tequila and a splash of very good quality triple sec. You can add a bit of simple syrup. If it is too expensive to buy all of that- just try to at a restaurant that will make that way especially the fresh lime juice part. Much better than the Skinny Girl. The whole reason that drink is bad tasting to me is because it is so hard to translate the lime juice properly into taste or to just use lime juice in a drink mix.

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    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted May 15, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @KCzar: I agree. Even Ramona came out and said the figure for the SGM sale was somewhere around $30 million. Bethenny took offense to that but I am inclined to believe that SGM hasn’t even made $50 million in sales yet so it would be extremely optimistic for a company to pay more than twice that. Plus, as you say..she still owns 50% of the company, meaning 50% of the stock.
    So are we to believe Jim Beam paid $120 million for just 50% of the company? And that the company, with Bethenny and Jim Beam’s shares combined, is actually worth $240 million? Sorry, I ain’t buying it. The figure or the margarita.

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    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted May 16, 2011 at 8:45 am

    The $30M figure makes a lot more sense than $120M especially since we don’t know for how long that plant cranks out 30,000 cases a week. That probably is a batch plant that bottles many other things besides Skinny Girl, a run at a time. Besides, even if they wrote her a check for $120M, after taxes, fees and lawyers, not to mention lawsuits, she would be lucky to clear half of that.

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    LastCall
    Posted May 18, 2011 at 1:06 am

    Fun recap! When I was watching this episode I kept thinking it’d probably be hard to write anything too snarky about it because it was so awfully mild and the ending was upbeat. Totally different formula from most of the other Bravo shows. And now Carol Hoppy is even using the term COC(s) on the air? I never expected to witness that.

    I’m not quite sure what some people expect when they criticize Bethenny for hiring people to make everything “all about her.” I mean, of course most things on this show are going to be about her. It’s her show. Like it or not, she’s the star, and basically she is her own brand. Those personal assistants, interns and nannies are her employees, and just like the personal assistants of all other “celebrities,” part of their job is to make Bethenny’s life easier. But I really haven’t seen Bethenny abusing any of those people or putting undue pressure on them to worship her or anything. And I certainly wouldn’t say she abuses or mistreats her husband…at least not any more than he does her, that is. They sometimes have some pretty sarcastically critical exchanges, but for the most part it’s done humorously. It’s clear that Bethenny and Jason really do like each other, though, and I think that holds true for the relationship between B and her employees too. Yeah, Julie admitted Bethenny was a PITA during the first trimester of her pregnancy (shocking), but she obviously cares for Bethenny and still likes working for her.

    I have no idea how much money B. got in her deal with Jim Beam, and frankly I don’t care what the exact figure is, but it’s funny to me how so many people are so absolutely certain that it’s NOT anything close to the figure the news media has reported. Granted $120 million does seem like an awfully high number for some pre-mixed margaritas, but I got the impression that it’s not just the margarita that they’re buying, it’s the whole skinnygirl brand. It sounded like Bethenny was already working on a bunch of other mixed drinks, and there may be other products in the works too. That brand could be a potential cash cow if marketed correctly, so I don’t think it’s completely out of the question that the 120 million quote could be accurate. I’d probably guess it’s a bit lower than that, but I don’t know. I guess if those people who are suing her win their lawsuit, then we’ll find out what the real number was…because that 12 million dollar part of the total amount they’re seeking is based on their presumption that twelve million dollars is ten percent of what she got. The other 100 million they’re seeking is supposed to be for “punitive damages.”

    Also, I don’t think Bethenny took offense to the Ramona’s claims that she made less money than was being reported. I think she took offense to the fact that Ramona, her is supposed to be her friend, couldn’t just say she was happy for Bethenny’s success but instead felt the need to publicly accuse Bethenny of “exaggerating everything.” Even if that sales number was exaggerated, the 120 mil. figure being reported didn’t come from Bethenny herself, so there was no reason for Ramona to be personally critical of B. in her statements. Plus, although I really like Ramona, I think that before she accuses anyone else of exaggerating things, she ought to first take a good look in a mirror. I mean, that woman can exaggerate her own accomplishments with the best of them.

    Sorry for the ridiculous length of this comment. Since it was the final episode, I thought I’d ramble on and on for a while:)

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