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Bethenny Frankel announces death of her mother Bernadette Birk from lung cancer at 73: 'She was brilliant, funny, cultured and wise'


The reality TV personality, 53, shared the heartbreaking news on Saturday in an Instagram post with throwback photos of her mother and a lengthy caption.

The reality TV personality, 53, shared the heartbreaking news on Saturday in an Instagram post with throwback photos of her mother and lengthy caption about their 'complex' but loving relationship. The Real Housewives of New York City alum — who got candid about her'traumatizing' divorce from her ex-husband Jason Hoppy on her Just B podcast over a week ago — wrote that her mother was 'complex, in pain, isolated and had demons' and they shared that they had a difficult past, but they still cared deeply about each other. The reality TV personality, 53, shared the heartbreaking news on Saturday in an Instagram post with throwback photos of her mother and lengthy caption about their 'complex' but loving relationship

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