Bethenny Frankel is offering rare insight into her coparenting dynamic with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy.
“I want to be in a successful relationship for myself and my daughter because we’re rolling very light and it comes up during holidays,” Frankel, 55, claimed on the Tuesday, May 19, episode of the “Aspire” podcast. “It comes up just in different ways with our unit.”
She continued, “There are a lot of personal things going on within her family dynamic, let’s just say, that have made it that I want her to be more part of a community.”
Frankel and Hoppy, 54, were married from 2010 to 2012, during which period they welcomed their now-16-year-old daughter Bryn. Amid their contentious divorce, Frankel and Hoppy battled in court over custody of Bryn.
A judge ultimately ruled in 2021 that Frankel was no longer required to pay Hoppy child support since Bryn primarily resides with her.
“I’m removing myself of this fight for Bryn and my physical, emotional and mental health,” Hoppy said in a court hearing at the time. “I will not spend the remainder of Bryn’s childhood fighting as we share joint physical custody. Bryn knows I love her, I want her and I will always be available for our time together.”
Frankel and Bryn eventually relocated to Florida in 2025.
“We were down in Florida and something very personal transpired,” Frankel said on her “Just B” podcast in May 2025, sharing the reason for the mother-daughter pair’s move to the Sunshine State. “I don’t want to get into all the details of this now, but something happened, and my daughter, who had said years ago, ‘I want to move to Florida,’ she cried to me.”
While Frankel initially dismissed Bryn’s request, the Skinnygirl founder soon realized how desperate her daughter seemed to be for a fresh start.
“She meant it, and she begged me,” Frankel recalled. “She didn’t have to beg me, like, she was like, ‘I really want this.’ I know my kid and I knew that once this was presented … that she’d want to move. I was just like, ‘F***ing f*** it, OK.’”
Now, Frankel is hopeful to give her daughter a sense of community.
“I want a unit, I want a family,” she stated on Emma Grede’s podcast earlier this week. “I want to be part of a team, and I want to work for sure because I believe in the power of purpose and I believe in being connected to something. I just want enough of the vehicle that I can still connect with an audience in the way that I do now and laugh.”
