Bethenny Frankel is not ruling out another trip down the aisle thanks to her daughter, Bryn.
“I want it for my daughter,” Frankel, 54, exclusively shared in her Us Weekly cover story. “We had a family scare this week with my dogs and the four of us are a little quarantine. She’s like, ‘I love my mom and I love my family.’ I want it for her, but I’m not gonna do it for the wrong reason.”
The Real Housewives of New York City alum — and Us Weekly’s Entrepreneur of the Year — explained, however, that she’s “not leaving the house” for a date “unless it’s worth it.”
“I’m not going unless it’s worth it. We go or we stay home. Those are the options,” Frankel added, noting that she’s looking for an older partner. “I’m not going to have a 40 year old washboard ab Italian who keeps telling me that I need an Italian in my life. I’m like, ‘No, I need someone who has a five in front of their age.’”
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Frankel, who shares 15-year-old daughter Bryn with ex-husband Jason Hoppy, noted that her love life has been put on pause for now.
“I’ve been celibate. I’m not saying I think of myself as some hot commodity, but I do have several men pursuing me, and they think we’d be great for each other, so they’re trying to sort of push me to go out with them,” she shared with Us. “But I know that either they’re too short, too tall, they’re not successful enough in their career, they don’t live in a place I want to live or visit… Like, I get to choose.”
She continued, “And in the past, the reason I’ve been so s****y at relationships is because you get in a car that’s going the wrong direction, but you get in anyway when you’re younger, because your friends will say, ‘Just go have fun.’ Like, I don’t want to. I’m not wasting any time with any of this bulls*** unless it’s a bull’s-eye. I’d rather be alone with a vibrator. I’ve got my kid, my friends. I’ve got my house. I’ve got my freaking cocktails. Get out of here. Go away.”
Frankel, who recently moved from Connecticut to Florida with Bryn and their dogs, explained that her loneliness has “one hundred percent” lifted.
“Moving to Connecticut was a strange choice for me, and I did it for a relationship, but it was a strange choice in retrospect,” she said. “[I’m] much happier.”
For more on Frankel, watch the exclusive video above and pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly — on newsstands now.
