Bethenny Frankel and Fiancé Paul Bernon Split After 6 Years Together
The couple got engaged in March 2021 after three years of dating
Bethenny Frankel is newly single.
The Skinnygirlmogul, 53, split from her fiancé Paul Bernon, 45, after six years together, PEOPLE has learned.
The breakup comes after Frankel announced the death of her mother, Bernadette Birk, at the end of April. She had been suffering from lung cancer, the Real Housewives of New York City alum revealed in an Instagram post.
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Frankel's rep did not immediately return PEOPLE's request for comment about the breakup, which Us Weekly was first to report.
Frankel and the real estate developer and film producer first met on a dating app in 2018. "I was pretty lucky when I walked in and saw him," Frankel told PEOPLE two years later of their first date. "He had a twinkle. He came as advertised — better than advertised. He overshot the mark."
They went Instagram official in December 2018, and Frankel gushed that he had "enriched [her] life immeasurably" as she celebrated his birthday in July 2019.
They briefly separated in October 2020, and Frankel said during an appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show days later that she was "really happy" despite the split. "We've had a great, great relationship," she said. "Not everything has to end badly. Some things just don't continue and it's not negative, it's just life."
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They rekindled things in January 2021, and two months later, PEOPLE exclusively confirmed that they were engaged.
Bernon popped the question "on an island off of Florida" in an "intimate" proposal, Frankel shared at the time. "No makeup, no manicure, no ring photos. It was very simple and beautiful."
She gushed of her fiancé, "Paul's an absolutely beautiful person and it's an exciting, fun time."
At the time, she had just finalized her divorce from Jason Hoppy, nearly eight years after the initial filing, with whom she shares daughter Bryn.
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Bernon's role in Frankel's life was also "amazing" because of how "good" of a "partner" he was, she told PEOPLE in November 2022.
"He's a good friend. He's a good dad. So everything's good. Everything is really good," she said on the PEOPLE Every Day podcast.
In December 2022, nearly two years after their engagement, Frankel told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that they hadn't set a date for the wedding yet.
"I don't know when we'll get married," she said. "I'm happily in a partnership and I love him so much abut I don't want to plan a wedding."
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She continued to make it clear that a traditional wedding was not in the cards for her, as she said on Today with Hoda & Jenna in June 2023, "I'm never gonna plan a wedding," as she and Bernon were already married in their minds.
"We love each other. We're great life partners. We are married. I just don't want to go through what everyone else wants us to do."
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