Bethenny Frankel revealed she was “relieved” to have suffered a miscarriage during her “suffocating” marriage to ex-husband Jason Hoppy.
While reflecting on the loss, which she suffered eight weeks pregnant in 2012, the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 53, said she was “incredibly relieved” to not have expanded her family while her second marriage was ongoing. thanks to a thread.
“In a constructive way, I said, ‘I feel a little relieved… because I don’t think this is a healthy or positive relationship,'” the reality star recalled telling her ex-spouse, whom separated from in 2012, on Tuesday’s episode of her Newly divorced B podcast.
Despite her relief, the mother-of-one made it clear that she initially told Hoppy, 53, that “it was a nightmare that” the miscarriage had occurred.
Bethenny Frankel revealed she was “relieved” to have suffered a miscarriage during her “suffocating” marriage to ex-husband Jason Hoppy.
Still, she claims he called her “a real piece of s**t” for her reaction and temporarily moved out of her house and into a hotel, which she also found to be a “relief.”
This prompted her to call divorce lawyers and begin looking for a way out of her marriage, just two years after welcoming her daughter Bryn Hoppy, who turns 14 next month.
At the time, the TV personality, who is engaged to fiancé Paul Bernon, detailed her pregnancy loss and felt a “variety of emotions” in a June 2012 statement. glamor essay.
“I have to admit I was a little relieved not to start my new TV job seven months pregnant,” Frankel wrote. “And then I felt immense guilt from relief.”
During her podcast, she also talked about not wanting to “be intimate” with Hoppy before her miscarriage.
Frankel alleged that Hoppy would compare their marital bed to “a block of ice” since she “didn’t want to have sex at all.”
The New York native explained that part of the reason she didn’t want to have sex with him was because she no longer had “respect” for Hoppy.
‘I used to force myself, gag myself by doing it. … It’s torture,” she told listeners.
The former couple finalized their divorce in 2021, nine years after announcing their separation.
While reflecting on the loss, which she suffered at eight weeks pregnant in 2012, the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 53, said she was “incredibly relieved” to not have a second child with her ex-spouse, who separated December 2012 (pictured May 2009)
Frankel, who married Hoppy in front of reality TV cameras in March 2010, welcomed their daughter two months after tying the knot.
The Skinnygirl founder, who now has full legal custody of Bryn, called herself “stupid” for conceiving so early in her relationship with Hoppy.
“I will never regret my daughter for a minute,” he said on his podcast. “But I felt like I was being bullied, waterboarded and whipped and on a path I couldn’t get out of.”
She continued to reflect on her and Hoppy’s past marital problems, which she claimed were a result of him feeling “castrated by [their] income disparity.’
“Constructively, I said, ‘I feel a little relieved… because I don’t think this is a healthy or positive relationship,'” the reality star recalled on Tuesday’s episode of her Just B Divorced podcast; photographed in 2010
Despite her relief, the mother-of-one made it clear that she initially told Hoppy, 53, that “it was a nightmare that” the miscarriage (seen in 2010) had occurred.
Last week, she revealed that she still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after her divorce, calling the experience “traumatizing.”
‘They have burned me. “I have huge trust issues and I suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder,” she expressed. “It was literally the most traumatizing thing I hope to go through in my life.”
The star added that the long divorce had been “more torturous” than the pain, while calling it “mental and emotional torture.”
The former couple share a teenage daughter, named Bryn Hoppy, who turns 14 next month.
After a custody battle over Bryn that lasted nearly a decade, Frankel was awarded primary residential custody of her daughter.
‘I thought I would never survive. I didn’t see a way out. She was suffocating. I thought she was going to be miserable for the rest of my life.
Frankel also stated, “Everything has been done to me except physical abuse, and I am an expert on this subject.”
Some of the incidents he allegedly experienced included “fraud”, “multiple custodial trials” and also “following”.
‘I’ve been through a damn war, a war. I have questioned myself as a human being, as a father, because many times I was told how terrible I was, how disgusting, how old, how irrelevant and how abused I was, because I had no power to get out of this.’