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Housewives' Bethenny Frankel Is Pregnant

Originally posted 10/20/2009 12:30PM

Bethenny Frankel, who got engaged to her boyfriend Jason Hoppy earlier this month, is pregnant with her first child she tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Although The Real Housewives of New York City star had hoped to wait until she was further along to break the news, online buzz on PerezHilton.com caused her to reveal that she's roughly two months pregnant. "It's premature to be telling people this," she tells PEOPLE while fighting back tears.

Though she knows she can hardly keep secrets now that she's a reality star, Frankel, 38, says she'd hoped to keep the news private a bit longer. "It's not like, 'Did I Get Botox?' It's not the way I wanted it to get out," she says. "I haven't even gone through my first trimester. We haven't even heard the heartbeat. My [fiancé's] parents didn't even know."

She and Hoppy are "both so excited," says Frankel. Still, she adds that because the pregnancy is early, "I am praying everything is okay but I don't know that yet."

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Bethenny Frankel to Jon Gosselin: 'Get Your Crap Together'

Originally posted 10/06/2009 05:30PM

Bethenny Frankel of The Real Housewives of New York City is not shy about her opinions – and now she's giving her advice to Jon Gosselin.

"I think you're defeated. You need to pull yourself up from your bootstraps and get back to your kids and get your crap together," Frankel tells the embattled reality TV dad on The Insider in a segment they taped together to air Tuesday. "You need to pull it together."

Referring perhaps to his summertime trip to St. Tropez with 22-year-old girlfriend Hailey Glassman and alleged brief romance with a tabloid reporter after his split from wife Kate Gosselin, Frankel adds, "It looks like you went through a rebellious phase."

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