Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Amazon Tap Here To Add Us Weekly As A Trusted Source Add as a preferred source on Google Bethenny Frankel opened up about why she won't be starring on E!'s Real Housewives of New York City spinoff. "It wouldn't be good for my business," Frankel, 55, explained via Instagram on Tuesday, March 3. "It used to be good for business when I was promoting my own business, but now that I work with a lot of other brands and have different types of equity deals and different types of partners, they don't look highly upon that genre.