Bethenny Frankel suffers a major health scare on tonight’s episode of Real Housewives of New York as she reveals a difficulty with debilitating fibroids. In an interview with People she says she hadn’t really opened up about it before because:
No one really talks about them. I didn’t realize how many people have them. It’s still something women don’t share.
Another cast member in the Real Housewives series who has openly dealt with fibroids on TV is Cynthia Bailey from Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Upon hearing that she had to have surgery, Frankel wanted to make sure she had a living will in order to protect her young daughter. Frankel’s net worth is estimated at $25 million.
In 2012, Frankel unfortunately suffered a miscarriage and she told People that the fibroids may have been a cause. Then, while filming this season of RHONY, her fatigue, anemia, pain and heavy bleeding became a much more serious problem as they increased. Frankel revealed:
I’d lost 10 percent of my blood, my uterus had doubled in size and my fibroids had grown larger. I was scared.
Fortunately, the fibroids were non-cancerous.
On Good Morning America, Frankel told Lara Spencer:
I suffer from a lot of female problems — cysts — and I had endometriosis … The bleeding was so excessive, and I was so weak and I felt like I looked so haggard and had such black circles under my eyes that I had to take care of it. It was part of the show and it was affecting the way I was acting during the show. When you’re iron deficient and you’ve lost so much of your blood, you just feel depleted … I just felt zoned out. I’m not really good at being the patient, the victim, the weak one. It was challenging on the show, and some of the girls were really supportive. It was really amazing.
The procedure was a three-day surgery and since then, Frankel has tried even harder to take care of herself, telling Us Weekly:
Since the surgery, I was drinking green juices and eating more vegetarian foods and trying to just eat healing foods. I did go to school for food and healing, so I’ve tried to really exercise that. I think that’s why the recovery’s been more quick than my doctors said.
Watch Frankel’s interview about her health scare below.
