RHONY alum Bethenny Frankel says she once secretly tried to adopt a 3-year-old child in foster care after welcoming Bryn
REAL Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel has revealed her disappointment at failing to adopt a three-year-old child.
The 49-year-old reality television star claimed recently that she attempted to adopt a toddler, but said the process proved to be much more difficult than that of adopting an infant.
She wrote on Instagram: "The thing that surprises people is that once they get into the system, it is hard to get them out. Growing up, we always heard that everyone wants a baby and not an older kid.
"I tried a while back to adopt a 3-year-old and it was a harder process than a newborn. If it's like other family law systems, it's not as easy as the movie[s] make it."
Frankel left the comment on an Instagram post by about a nine-year-old boy from Oklahoma named Jordan who spoke with a local TV news outlet about being in foster care, soon prompting 5,000 adoption submissions from potential parents who saw the broadcast.
The story moved Frankel and her 10-year-old daughter Bryn Hoppy.
"I will adopt him," Frankel wrote in the comments section. "Bryn said 'momma you should adopt him.'"
The multi-millionaire reality star has previously expressing interest in adopting a five-year-old girl who was abandoned at a bus station by her father in 2016, who later plead guilty to murdering her mother.
"How do I adopt this child?" Bethenny had tweeted at the time, along with a link to the tragic story. She added: "I am serious."
However, less than an hour later, the Bravo star bluntly said she found it impossible to adopt the child.
"Lawyer says once w the state a private adoption impossible which is now upsetting me more. That is bulls**t," she wrote at the time.
"There's a misconception that everyone wants an infant. Bc of this rule, babies r the only option. Once in system kids r lost. Sad," she said.
Bethenny shares daughter Bryn with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy.
They married in 2010 and filed for divorce in 2013.
She has been dating producer Paul Bernon since 2018.