Bethenny Frankel has a message for anyone co-parenting through a rough split, and she’s not softening it. In an Instagram video posted Sunday, the Skinnygirl founder told followers to never try to turn their kids against their ex. Her reasoning? It always backfires, no matter how badly the other parent behaved.
Frankel knows the territory. Her divorce from Jason Hoppy took a full decade to finalize over a marriage that lasted only two years, finally wrapping in 2021. The two share 16-year-old daughter Bryn, and Frankel has called the split traumatic, crediting Bryn as the reason she got through it. She described their bond as sitting somewhere between mother and daughter and friends.
Her advice boils down to this: keep your thoughts, your anger and your misery to yourself, and play the long game for your kids. That’s a big ask for anyone in a high-conflict custody situation, and plenty of listeners will have thoughts. Is staying quiet a healthy strategy or just swallowing years of frustration? Tell us your co-parenting story in the comments.
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