Bethenny Frankel, 40, is a force to be reckoned with that people probably underestimated (those that didn’t know about her successful past) and I say right on girlfriend!

She was part of Pashmina Princess, the first company to bring pashminas to the celebrity world. Then she became a natural foods chef that fed celebrity clientele.

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And who can forget The Real Housewives of New York? She parlayed that show into Bethenny Getting Married, Bethenny Ever After and then there are the books.

But the biggie that has been her win-fall thus far, has been her Skinny Girl Cocktails which was a line she developed with David Kanbar in 2009. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that her Skinnygirl cocktail line was just acquired by: Fortune Brands’ Beam Global — which distributes the likes of Jim Beam bourbon and Sauza tequila for $120 Million!! That’s $20 Million more than P. Diddy’s deal with Ciroc.

Ca-freaking-ching bitches!! What she admits as well is that she turned down the offer to appear on the Real Housewives show three times! Then she decided it was good for business:

I went on the show single-handedly and exclusively for business,” Frankel says of the now common practice among reality stars. “I knew it was a risk and I had the most to lose, because I already had a platform. When I went on the show, no one was going on for business, no one had done anything.”

Not only is she gorgeous, smart, RICH and talented, she’s a frugal, down-to-earth woman. She says of the series:

I’m not running around buying diamonds and getting facials,”"I just decided to be totally honest and own it. You can’t do something you don’t stand for just to make money. It’s a smart audience, people will realize it.”

To read the rest of this great interview, head on over to the Hollywood Reporter.

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[via: Huffington Post]