Bethenny Frankel Fires Back at ‘Crybaby’ Dina Manzo’s Daughter Lexi Ioannou: ‘You’re Not a Real Business Person’
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The Real Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel fired back at “crybaby” Dina Manzo‘s daughter, Lexi Ioannou, after Lexi publicly went at her.
Lexi, whose mother had appeared on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, had gifted Bethenny a pair of shoes from her brand Nou. Rather than post a link to Nou, Bethenny posted the shoes and linked to a dupe in an attempt to get commission from sales of the shoe.
Lexi ended up posting to her Instagram page, calling Bethenny a “weirdo,” and detailing the situation.
In response, Bethenny took to TikTok to clap back.
“I don’t usually respond to things like this, but I think there’s a business lesson here,” Bethenny shared. “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.”
Bethenny questioned why she would wear something and talk about it if her audience couldn’t buy it.
“We do this all the time,” she insisted. “Magazines do this all the time.”
She then turned her attention to Lexi, whom she did not name: “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.”
“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 continued. “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.”
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Bethenny then insisted Lexi was “playing the short game,” “whining,” and “being a crybaby” since this did not go her way, which Bethenny feels means 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 added. “So, my account, my body, my choice. Once you send those shoes into my house, my shoes. You’re welcome.”
Dina also took to her Instagram Story to post a screenshot of Bethenny wearing some shoes alongside a comment she made.
“Just giving her some advice for the ‘long game,’ but guess she didn’t like it?” Dina wrote. “I mean she did trip.”
In the comment Dina posted, she had written to Bethenny that she “better change back” to her comfortable shoes from Lexi’s brand.
“Looks like you almost ate the pavement there for a minute,” Dina added.
Lexi also invoked Bethenny’s former RHONY costar and frenemy Luann de Lesseps to throw some more shade at Bethenny after Luann commented under her Instagram post about the ‘Skinny Girl’ founder, “Money can’t buy you class.”
Lexi reposted Luann’s comment on her Instagram stories with a link to her shoes, adding “but it can buy you shoes.”
