Lauren Sanchez admits she's envious of Bethenny Frankel's body after reality star stunned in thong bikini
It looks like Lauren Sanchez is a big fan of Bethenny Frankel, as she fawned over the 54-year-old's enviable physique after she stunned on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway in a barely-there bikini.
Over the weekend weekend, Frankel, who recently moved to Florida, left little to the imagination as she strutted her stuff during the SI fashion show.
The Skinnygirl founder wore multiple looks, showing off her toned legs and stomach in a sultry pink polka dot bikini and black cover-up, which she later ripped off to reveal a thong bikini bottom underneath.
She turned around to show her backside to the audience, as she jokingly covered her mouth in surprise.
Frankel also debuted a new, much-longer and lighter brown hairstyle at the event, rocking beach-like waves that fell perfectly around her face.
Later on, she emerged in a denim bikini top and black bottoms, which she paired with a cowboy hat; she also flashed some side boob in tiny leopard-print one-piece swimsuit.
It was a look that wowed fans, and even caught the attention of Sanchez, who re-posted a clip of Frankel parading down the runway in the polka dot bikini to her Instagram Stories on Sunday.
'We all need this energy,' future Mrs. Bezos wrote in white text over the video.
'And this body! Wow wow,' Sanchez continued her message, which was followed with a star-eyed, smiley-face emoji.
While Frankel wasn't invited to Sanchez's recent bachelorette trip to Paris with Kim Kardashian, she has known the former Good Day LA host for 25 years.
In fact, after the former journalist was trashed for her cleavage-baring white pantsuit that she wore to President Trump's inauguration, Frankel came to her defense in a video on TikTok.
'Why can't Lauren Sanchez show a little cleavage at the inauguration?' the former Real Housewives of New York City star ranted in the video at the time.
She joked that President Trump had 'seen a boob or two in his day.'
'What does it matter? Who cares? She went to an event. She has boobs,' Frankel said.
The star added that Sanchez looked 'hot.'
'We can't live in a world where we pretend we're gonna let everybody be who they want but then not,' Frankel said at the time.
'Wear what you want. Do what you want to do.'
And it looks like Frankel took her own advice as she stunned in Miami this weekend.
Hundreds rushed to the comment section on TikTok to discuss her stunning appearance after a video of her on the runway went viral, and some even branded her as 'unrecognizable' thanks to her new 'do.
'Is that really Bethany Frankel?!!?! If so what did she get done? Where? Who? How much?!?!' one user asked.
'That hair just took off a decade! She is [fire],' gushed another.
'She looks great but I barely recognize her,' someone else added.
'Wow, I've never seen her look so good,' a fourth comment read.
A fifth said, 'Is she in the witness protection program? She's unrecognizable.'
'Why can't Lauren Sanchez show a little cleavage at the inauguration?' the former Real Housewives of New York City star ranted in the video at the time
Frankel joined the likes of former Bravo star Stassi Schroeder, who also walked the runway this weekend, along with influencer Alix Earle, Olympian Ilona Maher, and model Camille Kostek.
The Just B podcast host's runway appearance comes just weeks after she announced her move to the Sunshine State.
The reality TV personality previously explained that living with just her daughter Bryn, whom she shares with ex-husband Jason Hoppy, in an overly spacious house in New York 'was drowning her.'
'It was just the two of us,' she said in a TikTok video. 'It was a massive property, and I made the decision to buy that property when I was in a different stage of my life.
'I thought it would be this, like, big family home and that I'd be entertaining there a lot.'
She continued: 'The house was drowning me because it had an apple orchard, it was a historical house, it had all this property, and it was beautiful and amazing for a big family with kids and grandparents.
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