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"I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been watching Bethenny Frankel on TV for so long that when she walked into the Skinnygirl Rocks the House event in NYC last week (the official kick-off to summer and all her fabulous cocktails), I forgot for a second that we weren&amp;amp;#8217;t actually friends. But here&amp;amp;#8217;s what I love about Bethenny . . . when I actually did chat with her, I felt like we became pals. And in typical Bethenny fashion, she totally got it. &amp;amp;#8220;I thought I was friends with Julie McCoy from the Love Boat,&amp;amp;#8221; she laughed. With so much going on&amp;amp;#8212;the latest season of Bethenny Ever After ends next week, her first novel Skinnydipping is a New York Times best seller, she has an entire bar full of Skinnygirl cocktails in stores now AND her very own daytime talk show premieres this June&amp;amp;#8212;Bethenny didn&amp;amp;#8217;t hold back about all that she&amp;amp;#8217;s obsessing over, you know, when she has a moment to breathe! I&amp;#x27;m Most Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;Organization!&amp;amp;#8221; Things I&amp;amp;#8217;m Most Obsessed With for Summer: &amp;amp;#8220;Colored shoes. And, I just love bangles&amp;amp;#8212;tonight I&amp;amp;#8217;m wearing all the colors of the flavors of the Skinnygirl cocktails.&amp;amp;#8221; Skinnygirl Cocktails I&amp;amp;#8217;m Most Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;White Cranberry Cocktail I&amp;#x27;m the most obsessed with but the Cucumber Vodka if I&amp;amp;#8217;m out and the Rose in the afternoon.&amp;amp;#8221; First Celebrity I Was Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;Matt Dillon--and I&amp;#x27;m still obsessed with him.&amp;amp;#8221; My DVR is Obsessed with Recording: &amp;amp;#8220;Nothing. Literally I just moved and I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t caught up with anything except my baby and work and husband. But, I do watch the Real Housewives of Orange County&amp;amp;#8212;they have a good plot going on. It caught me by surprise. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m into Real Housewives of New Jersey because I was never there before.&amp;amp;#8221; The Movies I&amp;amp;#8217;m So Obsessed With I Know Every Word: &amp;amp;#8220;Wall Street, The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and a lot of idiot movies like Dumb and Dumber and Tommy Boy.&amp;amp;#8221; The Music I&amp;amp;#8217;m Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Carole King&amp;amp;#8212;I know, I&amp;amp;#8217;m like 98 years old--when I was younger, I had time to listen to music. Donna Summer, may she rest in peace, James Taylor, Rihanna and Pink is my favorite.&amp;amp;#8221; My Girl Crush: &amp;amp;#8220;I would lay down and turn to the other side for [Pink]. I want to marry her. It would be polygamy.&amp;amp;#8221; The Book I&amp;amp;#8217;m Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;I am obsessed with [my book] Skinnydipping because it&amp;amp;#8217;s so good and people are just starting to read it and starting to figure out what the whole story is. I&amp;amp;#8217;m also reading Kate White&amp;amp;#8217;s So Pretty It Hurts.&amp;amp;#8221; Vacation Spots I&amp;amp;#8217;m Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;One&amp;amp;Only Palmilla in Los Cabos, Mexico, Viceroy in Anguilla and Turks and Caicos.&amp;amp;#8221; The One Thing in My Closet I&amp;amp;#8217;m Most Obsessed With: &amp;amp;#8220;My Judith Leiber bag that&amp;amp;#8217;s all the colors of the rainbow. [Ed note: I share with Bethenny how my grandmother had a JL bag that I loved so much]. Bryn will get mine&amp;amp;#8212;but I might take it to the grave with me.&amp;amp;#8221; The One Thing I Could Go Bankrupt Buying: &amp;amp;#8220;Bags and diamonds.&amp;amp;#8221; The Best Advice I Ever Received: &amp;amp;#8220;Never assume anyone is smarter than you. Be yourself, own it and don&amp;amp;#8217;t apologize [for it].&amp;amp;#8221; The Career Path I Secretly Wanted to Take: &amp;amp;#8220;I wanted to be a copywriter and do creative marketing campaigns for advertisers. But, it&amp;amp;#8217;s really funny because all roads lead to Rome and I ended up doing that&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s what I do in my job. I wanted to do stand up comedy and yesterday I roasted Betty White. In this career, I managed to do all the things I ever wanted to do. So if you go for your dreams, it doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t have to be the road you thought it would be. You can do all the things you wanted to do in your own way, on your own terms. So I stood up yesterday at the Friars Club and I do copy writing and advertising for my brands--that&amp;amp;#8217;s the cool part.&amp;amp;#8221; The One Thing I Haven&amp;#x27;t Done Yet: &amp;amp;#8220;I like to snowboard and would have liked to have been a professional snowboarder. I would have taken a year off to snowboard--that would have been cool.&amp;amp;#8221; Why You&amp;amp;#8217;ll Be Obsessed with Bethenny&amp;#x27;s New Talk Show: &amp;amp;#8220;We have to get the conversation started. I want to get into it. I want women to get into it. I want to talk about all the taboo topics that you talk about over cocktails.&amp;amp;#8221; What about Bethenny are you most obsessed with? What obsessions do you both share? More Stars Spilling to Obsessed! * Out to Lunch With: Danny Pudi, Who&amp;#x27;s Somehow Even More Adorable Than Abed * Exclusive Video! Maria Menounos Tells Glamour the Inside Scoop on Her Perfect Score-Earning DWTS Paso Doble * Kate Walsh Dishes on the TV and Movies that Inspire Her Love Life--and Reveals What Taye Diggs Really Smells Like! Photos: StarTraks Photo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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