Kelly Bensimon thinks fellow The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum Bethenny Frankel’s current transfer was a wise one.
“I believe that transferring to Florida is all the time a good suggestion while you’re at that second stage of your life,” Bensimon, 57, completely informed Us Weekly on Wednesday, Might 28, whereas attending Miami Swim Week.
“It’s a homestead state, so it’s actually good to guard your funds,” she continued. “In order that was a very, actually sensible transfer for her and simply to loosen up and simply take these subsequent no matter it’s — 30 years — and simply actually for her to actually, actually get pleasure from. I believe that’s an awesome concept for her.”
Frankel, 54, first introduced her resolution to maneuver to the Sunshine State alongside along with her daughter, Bryn, in April, citing each “private {and professional} causes.”
“I’m transferring to Florida for private {and professional} causes,” the fact TV star stated on the time through an Instagram Video. “One thing has arisen that made this the most effective and healthiest for myself and my daughter.”
One month later, Frankel opened up in regards to the causes behind the transfer, admitting to followers that she hadn’t been “completely trustworthy” about her motivations.
“I haven’t been completely trustworthy with you about this transfer,” she shared in a video posted on Might 11. “I’ve been fairly lonely the previous 5 or 6 years. And it began with the pandemic, which gave me license to be the introvert and insular individual that everybody is shocked that I’m. My pals comprehend it very effectively as a result of I appear like a social individual, however I’m not! I might be house for days with out leaving the home, and the pandemic gave me license to do exactly that.”
She went on to elucidate that she had been discussing the transfer for some time along with her daughter, Bryn, whom she shares along with her ex-husband, Jason Hoppy.
“We had been out within the Hamptons, after which I moved to the suburbs and I assumed it was gonna be wonderful,” she continued. “It actually turned a cave the place I used to be lonely and residential and by no means did something. The one time I might have enjoyable could be once I would exit of city.”
Whereas Florida is now her fundamental place of residence, Frankel maintains a house in New York Metropolis — and finally hopes that her Florida transfer will reinvigorate her love for the Massive Apple.
“I paradoxically suppose this transfer is gonna reinvigorate my relationship with this metropolis,” she stated. “I’ve simply been preserving this inside, as a result of when you may have one thing happening you could’t change, you don’t discuss it.”