Bethenny Frankel and Paul Bernon have damaged up following six a long time of dating, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
A mutual friend of the few verified to Us that “it just wasn’t going to work” among the pair, who split all over two months in the past. “They are so distinctive – he’s an under the radar form of guy,” the source stated.
Frankel has sparked confusion about her romantic relationship standing by selectively wearing her giant engagement ring in social media movies in current weeks. “She however has the ring,” the supply noted. Us reached out to Frankel and Bernon’s teams for remark.
Frankel began dating Bernon in Oct 2018 just after assembly him on a dating app.
“I was quite lucky when I walked in and saw him,” Frankel recalled to People in April 2021. “He had a twinkle. He arrived as advertised — superior than marketed. He overshot the mark.”
Practically one 12 months later on, a resource solely advised Us Weekly that Frankel and Bernon moved in with each other and have been hunting for a new home.
“They reside jointly in the Back Bay area [in Boston] now,” the insider shared in September 2019. “She has been paying a great deal extra time up there. They are property-hunting in the New England spot.”
In October 2020, Frankel and Bernon briefly split but reunited in January 2021 soon after they had been spotted collectively in Miami. “It was a spontaneous get-with each other,” an eyewitness advised Us at the time.
Adhering to their reconciliation, the couple declared they ended up engaged in March 2021.
“I’m quite psyched, and it is really amazing,” Frankel shared in an job interview with Added at the time.
One particular yr after their engagement, she couldn’t aid but gush about why Bernon is this sort of a “good companion.”
“I’m grateful for stability in my business enterprise and personal life and the choices I’m producing, the successes I’m experiencing, the daughter I am elevating,” Frankel shared in November 2022 on an episode of People’s “Every Day” podcast. “Paul is awesome. He’s a fantastic companion. He’s a fantastic buddy. He’s a good dad. So everything’s fantastic. All the things is genuinely good.
Just after speculation that they experienced split once again, Frankel uncovered in July 2023 that her and Bernon were being continue to alongside one another — but they weren’t wanting to get married anytime soon.
“I really do not want to build a marriage ceremony,” she reported throughout an appearance on E! Information in July 2023. “I adore my lifestyle. I appreciate my fiancé. He’s an incredible daily life husband or wife and I do not want to sign a contract with somebody I enjoy. I really don’t want to strategy a significant wedding for every person else and not [do] what we want. I like executing what you want, not what society would like you to do.”
Frankel was beforehand married to Jason Hoppy from 2010 to 2012, however, they didn’t finalize their divorce right up until March 2021 immediately after a decade-prolonged lawful battle. (The few share daughter Bryn, 13, together.)
“It was practically the most traumatizing detail I will with any luck , at any time go by means of in my life,” Frankel shared in an April 2024 episode of her “Just B” podcast about her divorce. “I have been through a f–king war. I have questioned myself as a human, as a dad or mum, due to the fact I was informed so quite a few occasions if not how awful I was and disgusting and old and irrelevant and abused, due to the fact I had no electrical power to get out of it.”