When you think of Bethenny Frankel, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City. But what may surprise you are the hundreds of millions of dollars her BStrong organization has delivered to people in crisis, such as for Ukrainian refugees and victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquakes. “Hollywood is the land of bullsh**,” Frankel told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott about celebrities’ responses to international tragedies. “There are cool crises and not cool crises...bam, next week, it’s something else.” But BStrong is “gonna talk about things when they’re not cool anymore.” Frankel also spoke about her call to unionize reality TV talent (“Bravo is scare”) and what it’s like to be a new TikTok beauty influencer.  

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