{"id":74800,"date":"2025-12-07T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:08","slug":"bethenny-frankel-brags-about-her-12m-real-estate-profits-after-haters-blast-her-ugly-new-florida-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74800\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethenny Frankel brags about her $12M real estate profits after haters blast her &#8216;ugly&#8217; new Florida house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethenny Frankel shut down the haters brutally criticizing her home\u2019s d\u00e9cor by bragging about the millions she\u2019s made off of flipping houses.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cReal Housewives of New York City\u201d alum\u2019s new home in Florida was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/bethenny-frankel-south-florida-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">featured in Architectural Digest<\/a>, with the outlet describing her home as \u201ca streamlined, contemporary take on classic Floridian design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of her and designer Lauren Lindner\u2019s choices for the home included a marble waste basket that costs around $1,000, to more attainable pieces from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighs and lows, baby,\u201d Frankel told the magazine of the items in her home. \u201cThere are so many things that are fun to mix in that no one will ever know where they\u2019re from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bethenny Frankel responded to all the haters criticizing her home d\u00e9cor after her new Florida home was featured in Architectural Digest.<\/p>\n<p>Critics blasted her home as \u201cugly\u201d and having a HomeGoods aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>But the social media reaction was overwhelmingly negative, with the top comment on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR7SLl5jvsg\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Architectural Digest Instagram post<\/a> about her home reading, \u201cWhat in the HomeGoods is happening here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMade in china dupes is featured in arch digest now,\u201d another comment said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot even bad taste, just an absence of taste,\u201d another user griped.<\/p>\n<p>Other comments criticized Architectural Digest for featuring Frankel\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoller blinds, accent wall wallpaper, a coffee table as a side table. I really am confused what about this is appropriate to run in ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST,\u201d one comment said.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics also called out Architectural Digest for featuring the reality star\u2019s home in the first place, deeming it unworthy of the magazine. Bethenny Frankel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Frankel shared in an Instagram post Sunday that she\u2019s made over $12 million in profits from flipping houses over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Another user wrote, \u201cAD- blink twice if you\u2019re ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hate continued on X, with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wijodo\/status\/1997429724277289329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one user commenting<\/a>, \u201cArchitectural Digest posting Bethenny\u2019s ugly ass Home Goods slop abomination of a house please be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frankel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR-KUrMABTb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">responded to the hate<\/a> in an Instagram video Sunday, sharing that she\u2019s made at least $12 million in real estate profits over the last few years. The reality star, 55, also clarified there were no HomeGoods or Wayfair pieces in her house, but defended them as multi-billion dollar brands.<\/p>\n<p>Frankel explained that she designs homes as an investment.<\/p>\n<p>She defended her decorating choices, noting she was not \u201cprecious\u201d and designed homes as investments. bethennyfrankel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>She noted, \u201cI\u2019m not the one who\u2019s going to like, get in bone from China and inlay it onto my floor. I\u2019m not that bitch.\u201d bethennyfrankel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis home that I\u2019m in, I paid $4.2 [million], getting a million dollar discount because it was going into foreclosure, it\u2019s worth over $6 [million] now and I could sell it when I decide to move in three years when [my daughter] Bryn is going into college for about $7 million,\u201d she bragged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI approach a home with neutral tones that are something that anybody could relate to, possibly want to buy, but definitely be able to see their own vision when they come to look at a house because I do move a decent amount,\u201d she further explained about her d\u00e9cor choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not the one who\u2019s going to like, get in bone from China and inlay it onto my floor. I\u2019m not that bitch,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She also said there were no HomeGoods or Wayfair pieces in her home, but defended both brands as billion-dollar businesses. bethennyfrankel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I make my $3 million on this house, maybe I\u2019ll invite you for a latte,\u201d she sniped at her haters. bethennyfrankel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>She also addressed Architectural Digest\u2019s controversial choice to feature her, likening it to Vogue\u2019s choice to put Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on their April 2014 cover, and Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/11\/19\/style\/met-gala-2026-what-lauren-sanchez-and-jeff-bezos-sponsorship-means\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">involvement in next year\u2019s Met Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAD is a business,\u201d Frankel noted. \u201cThey want to aspire, to entertain, engage and hopefully give people something that is attainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then took one last parting shot at her haters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I make my $3 million on this house, maybe I\u2019ll invite you for a latte,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethenny Frankel shut down the haters brutally criticizing her home\u2019s d\u00e9cor by bragging about the millions she\u2019s made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42461,42462,9633,26949,28,30,29,27061,26950,555,480,42463,42464,42465,1459],"class_list":["post-74800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-architectural-digest","tag-bethenny-frankel","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-home-decor","tag-instagram","tag-lifestyle","tag-real-estate","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-new-york-city","tag-reality-stars","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}