Bethenny Frankel Quotations

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

I can't work without my family being with me.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I never thought I'd be a role model but I think to some people I am or have been.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

I don't believe in diets.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

I truly don't believe in regret.

If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

I despise shopping and department stores.

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

I enjoy business. I enjoy inspiring women.

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

I think that yoga, it really is a process.

Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

New York City is my playground.

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

I have always been a business person.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.