She wasn't always a Skinnygirl! Bethenny Frankel appears fuller in old photo shared by pal Kyle Richards to wish star a happy 46th birthday

Kyle Richards comes from a famous family - her nieces are Paris and Nicky Hilton and her sister is the former actress Kim Richards.

And she also has plenty of famous friends.

One of them is Bethenny Frankel who she has known for over 20 years. On Saturday the Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star took to Instagram to say Happy Birthday to her fellow Bravo star.

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That was then: Kyle Richards shared a photo of Bethenny Frankel from the 1990s to wish her pal a happy 46th birthday

Kyle also shared a very old photo of the two of them, most likely taken in the 1990s.

Her caption read: 'Happy birthday @bethennyfrankel ❤️friends for more than 2 decades ...love you XXOO circa 1992 (what does that even mean ??).'

Kyle looked pretty in a black dress with her hair down.

Bethenny appeared much fuller in her face and less anxious than she comes off now.

The community likes her: The star wore a red jacket on Friday in NYC while visiting a shop that wished her a good birthday

Frankel was last seen in NYC on Friday in a scarlet leather biker jacket.

She teamed it with a pair of white wide-legged trousers and black pumps.

Often on the show she is seen wearing her heart on her sleeve, but on this occasion she sported a spade on her T-shirt, as she enjoyed the attention for her natal day

The Skinny Girl entrepreneur wore her brunette tresses in a simple straight bob and added dark glasses.

In September, she banked $6.95 million after selling the apartment she once shared with Hoppy in one day with the help of Million Dollar Listing New York star Fredrik Eklund.

Her little one: She finalised her divorce from Jason Hoppy in July, after a long drawn out negotiation. The couple shared six year old daughter Bryn. Here she is seen with her daughter on Thursday in NYC

She finalised her divorce from Jason Hoppy in July, after a long drawn out negotiation.

The couple shared six year old daughter Bryn.

She said in an interview in January that the divorce 'is sort of like a drop of poison in the ocean . . . Am I feeling it? No. But it’s there . . . It’s not that emotionally draining. It does come up at times. You have to really just be very Zen about it.'

Pinky: The star shared this old Halloween photo where she was dressed as Marilyn Monroe

Not fat on this babe: Frankel looked super thin in her cheetah outfit on Halloween at Heidi Klum's big bash in Manhattan

Frankel has also said she would not get legally married again, 'not even with a billionaire.'

It has also been a tough time for her on the health front as in May she underwent a myomectomy - when fibroids are surgically removed from the uterus.

The procedure meant a three day hospital stay and a six week recovery time for the busy beauty

Bethenney spoke about her health during an appearance on Good Morning America, revealing that: 'I've been told that the fibroids probably caused my miscarriage a couple of years ago.'

 

 

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