Bethenny Frankel, 54, flaunts her figure in TINY thong bikini during Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway show
Bethenny Frankel shocked fans with her youthful appearance as she flaunted her figure in a tiny thong bikini at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit fashion show on Saturday.
The former Real Housewives of New York star, 54, left very little to imagination as she strutted down the runway in various swimsuits for the coveted catwalk show in Miami Beach.
For her first look, Bethenny donned sultry pink polka dot bikini and black cover-up.
Upon reaching the end of the catwalk, she ripped off the cover-up 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.
Later, 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.
The TV star oozed confidence, dancing and shaking her hips as she made her way down the runway.
She also debuted a new, much-longer and lighter brown hairstyle at the event, rocking beach-like waves that fell perfectly around her face.
The former Real Housewives of New York star, 54, left very little to imagination as she strutted down the runway in various swimsuits for the coveted catwalk show in Miami Beach
After a video of Bethenny on the runway was shared to TikTok, many of her avid fans couldn't believe how young she looked.
Hundreds rushed to the comment section to discuss her stunning appearance, 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.'
Bethenny recently moved to Florida and her new life in the south is clearly doing wonders for her as her fans were right, she's never looked better.
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.
'It just ended up being a place that I spent a lot of time alone [in] because I didn't really know many people in that community. It was lonely.'
She said she didn't want to be 'home alone' so she decided to 'simplify' their space.
'My simplification is someone else's complication because I'm still going to be in a beautiful home, but I just took on too much,' she explained.
Hundreds rushed to the comment section to discuss her stunning appearance, and some even branded her as 'unrecognizable' thanks to her new 'do
'And the idea of something was different than the reality of it,' she continued.
Bethenny added that she originally planned to downsize in four years when her daughter would be heading off to college, but she decided to go ahead with it now because of a 'moment.'
'This situation was drowning me and something else was distracting her and neither of us would say it out loud because this is just what it was,' she said cryptically.
'The moment it became about her, I was able to be honest with myself about how I felt and it freed both of us. I think I'll be lighter and brighter and happier in the coming months.'
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