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Setting the report straight. Bethenny Frankel is conscious that her face appears to be like “completely different” in footage from her Aspen, Colorado, trip — and he or she’s clapping again on the on-line criticism.
“I’m bloated, swollen and I’ve gained 4 lbs in 3 days as a result of my physique is desperately hanging on to any water it will possibly,” the Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum, 52, wrote by way of Instagram on Thursday, February 23, alongside a video of herself discussing her signs. “Some time again I shared what has been a critical battle with POTS. That is an autoimmune dysfunction that appears to have been drastically exacerbated since COVID. I do know there are a lot of of you on the market, so thanks for the entire info. It’s definitely a situation to handle.”
Frankel, who additionally suffers from persistent extreme dehydration and intensely low blood stress, added a “P.S.” to the social media customers which have bashed her look.

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“Whenever you touch upon somebody’s bodily look, you could not know precisely what they’re enduring personally, bodily and emotionally,” she wrote on Thursday.
The Skinnygirl founder additional defined that she is “tousled” and “not doing that nice,” whereas she offers together with her dehydration struggles and persistent ache.
“I’ve had liters of Pedialyte and water and Kombucha and coconut water and it simply goes proper by means of me,” she stated in her social media add. “And I’ve gained, like, 4 kilos whereas being right here [in Aspen] as a result of my physique’s making an attempt to carry onto any water it will possibly. Dehydration is so actual. That is, like, very intense and it’s gotten actually unhealthy in the previous couple of years since this autoimmune factor I’m coping with.”
The previous Bravo star added: “In order that’s why I look f—ked up.”
Frankel — who coparents daughter Bryn, 11, with ex-husband Jason Hoppy — famous that she’s been waking up each two hours in excruciating ache and “dying of thirst,” which her docs imagine is said to her Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) prognosis. (In keeping with the Cleveland Clinic, POTS is a situation that causes your coronary heart to beat quicker than regular after transitioning from sitting all the way down to standing up.)
Frankel has continued to make a “great effort to remain hydrated” by getting IVs and slicing alcohol from her weight loss plan, although the altitude and dry local weather of Aspen current extra challenges.
Whereas the Massive Shot With Bethenny alum continues to handle her well being challenges, she has lengthy been candid about prioritizing her well-being.
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“I worth self-care very a lot and I worth sleep. I don’t train actually very a lot in any respect, in order that hasn’t been nice, however actually I attempt to sleep as a lot as doable and make that such a precedence,” Frankel solely instructed Us Weekly in September 2021. “I’ve now satisfied myself that sleep is train. I inform everyone that and nobody appears to agree with me, however I’m going to proceed to push that ahead. I get up sweating typically, so I feel it’s train.”