Bethenny Frankel defended Alix Earle’s recent flirty outing with Tom Brady in an expletive-filled rant directed at the haters.
“Let me ask you something about Tom Brady and Alix Earle. And it’s not, ‘Why does anyone care?’ Because everyone cares,” she began in an Instagram video posted Monday.
“Why aren’t they allowed to do what they want to do?” she asked her fans.
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum 55, described the TikTok star and NFL alum as “two consenting adults.”
“He is a legendary, disciplined athlete that is respected by his entire community and everyone he’s worked with,” she said of Brady, before adding that Earle is “a successful influencer who is showing up on time and seems to have good, meaningful friendships.”
Frankel believes that anyone should be able to choose who they hook up with and how they spend their time.
“Let’s say they hung out for five minutes, zero minutes, or they, in five years, decide to spend the rest of their lives together. Why shouldn’t people do what they want to do?” she asked rhetorically.
Frankel noted that within her newly-launched dating community, The Core, she doesn’t set people up with 25-year age gaps, referring to how Brady is 48 and Earle is 25.
“Because we don’t believe that it’s setting people up for alignment, and we want people who want to meet their life partner right now,” she explained. “[It] doesn’t mean there aren’t exceptions. There are many exceptions.”
“This particular case, these two people are legal, consenting adults, they come from good families, he raises good children, and everybody’s not gonna get every score perfect on every choice either,” she said.
The Skinnygirl founder ended her message by telling her followers that “life is short.”
“I can promise you that when they’re closing the box, if that’s how you decide to go, you’re not going to be saying I wish I did more of what everybody wanted me to do, or wore more of what everybody wanted me to wear, or said more of what everyone wanted me to say. F–k it,” she said.
“Life is short. Do what you want to do, live how you want to live, live with integrity and ethics, try to do the best you can and be good, and you won’t always even be that, and everyone can f–k off,” she concluded.
Frankel attended the now-famous St. Barts New Year’s Eve bash where Earle and Brady were seen flirting with each other.
“They were at a yacht party and met, and broke off from the larger group, talking for a lot of the night,” a spy exclusively told Page Six last week.
Another source told US Weekly that it was an “instant connection” between Earle and the former New England Patriots quarterback.
Their PDA came just weeks after Earle confirmed her breakup from Braxton Berrios after two years together. Page Six confirmed that they ended things mutually due to distance issues.
The father-of-three, for his part, is an eligible bachelor following his divorce from Gisele Bündchen in 2022.
Frankel and Earle notably had a rocky start to their relationship when the content creator stood Frankel up for a dinner meeting in March 2025.
However, Page Six exclusively reported that they buried the hatchet days later.
