Bethenney Frankel is a talk show host, television personality, author, and chef who was born on November 3, 1970 in New York City, New York. Frankel appeared various times on screen before rising to fame when she competed on the reality competition show The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005. She later appeared in the show The Real Housewives of New York in 2008 and her own Bethenny Getting Married? In 2010. She is also an author of a number of books her first one was published in 2009 titled Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting.