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As Real Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel‘s feud with Lexi Iannou gained a lot of traction online, Luann de Lesseps and a makeup artist slammed Bethenny online.
Lexi, whose mom Dina Manzo was an OG on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, had sent Bethenny a pair of shoes from her brand Nou as a gift. Rather than link to Nou, Bethenny posted the shoes and linked to a dupe in an attempt to get a commission from sales of the shoe.
Lexi ended up taking to her Instagram page to call Bethenny out as a “weirdo,” and she shared the details of the situation.
In response to the ordeal, Luann, who has had her share of issues with Bethenny, posted a tongue-in-cheek comment on Instagram.
“Money can’t buy you class,” she wrote.
Lexi responded, quoting Luann’s famous song: “Elegance is learned, my friends.”
Lauren Urasek, a makeup artist, also put her two cents in.
“I used to do her makeup, all the time,” she wrote. “She treated me like ‘the help,’ never addressed me by my name, screamed at me and her 3 assistants.”
“She was a nightmare,” she added.
After Lexi’s initial post, Bethenny took to TikTok to fire off a response.
“I don’t usually respond to things like this, but I think there’s a business lesson here,” Bethenny stated. “I wore a pair of shoes yesterday. I did a fit check with them. It was in the queue for later, and in the moment, my team took a picture of me at an event, and the shoes were sold out, so they linked something similar because the audience gets frustrated when they can’t buy something immediately.”
She then questioned why she would wear something and talk about it if her audience couldn’t buy it.
“We do this all the time,” she continued. “Magazines do this all the time.”
While Bethenny didn’t call out Lexi by name, she addressed her, noting that “this female owner decided to post a scathing video of me. Her body, her choice. I have stated multiple times: you send me something, I have no obligation to link, like, use, wear, eye, tag – I can do whatever I want.”
@bethennyfrankel You’re welcome
“The business lesson is that there are other lovely things on this person’s site, and there are about a hundred brands that will watch this video that will message her to tell her how much product I move,” she added. “How many sprinkle cookies for Melissa Gorga, how many dresses for Ramy Brook, how many pairs of jeans for Guess, okay? I move a lot of product because I don’t bullsh*t.”
Bethenny also claimed Lexi was “playing the short game,” “whining,” and “being a crybaby” since this did not go her way, which Bethenny felt meant Lexi is “not a real business person” and has “a lot to learn.”
“I would have worn all of the shoes on your site, and you would have sold thousands of pairs and made hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Bethenny concluded. “So, my account, my body, my choice. Once you send those shoes into my house, my shoes. You’re welcome.”