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"If you&amp;#039;ve been following my blog for awhile, you know I don&amp;#039;t watch a lot of reality TV. I did happen to catch a few episodes early on of The Real Housewives of NYC, mostly because I really liked the Countess. I know she&amp;#039;s got a lot of detractors, but the few episodes I saw, I thought she was funny and straightforward. When she divorced her philandering husband, I liked her even more. And now we find out that another Real Housewife has a marriage on the rocks. Bethenny Frankel has announced that she and Jason Hoppy, her husband of three years, will be separating. Bethenny has built an empire out of her &amp;quot;Skinny Girl&amp;quot; brand name, via books, cocktails and workout videos. She&amp;#039;s a smart cookie, and I have no doubt she&amp;#039;ll land on her feet. She and her husband also had their own reality show, Bethenny Ever After, which detailed their first year of marriage and and parenthood.  Once again, we have to wonder how much of a blow to her marriage it was to have her life lived on the air. Those first years together are prime time for getting to really know each other, working out the kinks, settling in and building a life. Those things aren&amp;#039;t easy to do when you&amp;#039;ve got a camera crew following you around, filming every lover&amp;#039;s spat, sloppy habit and bad hair day. And then to see the media replay bad moments over and over, pulling them apart and rehashing them ad nauseam...I can&amp;#039;t imagine a life like that. Can you? I hope for the sake of their daughter, this is just a temporary separation, but in the world of celebrity, that&amp;#039;s a rare thing. Usually by the time they&amp;#039;ve made an announcement (following months of tabloids screaming about their marriage being in the dumps), it&amp;#039;s pretty much a done deal. Bethenny gets to watch all the speculation about who-gets-which-lawyer and who-pays-who now. I guess that&amp;#039;s the price you pay for selling your life to the masses. This blog is about as reality-pandering as I&amp;#039;m ever going to get! Do you think (like me) that it&amp;#039;s next to impossible to have a strong, relatively calm marriage with a camera in your face? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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