Bethenny Frankelis happy and not afraid to show it.
The Real Housewives of New York Citystar, 48, cozied up to beauPaul Bernonin a sunny snapshot she shared to social media this past Friday.
Dressed in a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses, Frankel posed with Bernon — who sported a pair of shades of his own, plus a tie-dye t-shirt — in front of a watery landscape for the summer selfie.
To the latter unsolicited comment, Frankel replied, “You should like being positive vs negative” — and to the former, she joked, “He is 12. I go to prison next season. #watchwhathappens.”
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Paul Bernon and Bethenny Frankel.Bethenny Frankel/Instagram
Frankel’s heartfelt post came one day after she sat down for aRHONYreunion, during which she said she was “doing well” and continuing to heal almost a year after her former on-off boyfriendDennis Shields’ sudden death last August.
“Itcomes in waves; there aredelayed reactions. I really have moved away from it,” she said of the grief. “We had broken up many times. He was always in my life.”
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“Truthfully, when you’re older, you don’t know if you’regoing to get your big fairytale,” Frankel explained. “Because I had this security presence in Dennis, where if it wasThanksgivingand I was going to be alone I could always be with him, I wasn’t giving myself what I deserved in a relationship.”
She also said shenever really considered them to be engaged, explaining, “He proposed and I was saying … ‘Okay, I’m accepting this ring and let’s see.’ ”
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In an Aprilconversation with PEOPLE, Frankel raved about her relationship with Bernon, a real estate developer and film producer, saying she was “a lucky gal” and that “things between us are really nice.”
Frankel and Bernon have been dating since last fall andwent Instagram official with their romancein December while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
Earlier in April, during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live, Frankel called her “incredible” boyfriend “a beautiful human being inside and out.”
“And yes, Bryn knows him and loves him,” she added of her 9-year-old daughter,Bryn Casey. “They’re very, very similar people.”
source: people.com
