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Bethenny Frankel experienced a health scare in Costa Rica when her blood pressure dropped and she “pretty much” fainted
A boutique employee helped her recover by offering support, pineapple and a place to rest during the episode
Frankel has been open about her health challenges, including POTS and a recent stage 2 liver disease diagnosis
Bethenny Frankel shared that she nearly collapsed while shopping on her Costa Rican vacation, thanking “the sweetest woman” at the store who came to her aid.
“I walk into a store and, like, pretty much faint. My blood pressure crashes,” the entrepreneur, 55, shared in an Instagram video posted on April 24.
The Skinnygirl founder previously revealed that she struggles with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a condition that causes varying symptoms when you transition from lying down to standing up, such as fatigue, dizziness and a fast heart rate.
When Frankel felt faint in the Nasara shop Magic Boutique, she recalled, “This woman in the store was like, ‘Please lay down,’ and was, like, offering me pineapple and pulled a chair up.”
At the time she filmed the video, Frankel said she’s “been in the store for an hour because I can’t move. She took my shoes off, and I have not been able to move from this couch because I’ve just been so dizzy, in another country, feeling super uncomfortable.”
Dubbing the unnamed helper “the sweetest woman” in her video caption, Frankel shared a clip of the employee, explaining, “I wanna show you her because she’s amazing, and her store is so nice, but she’s so sweet.”
She added, “So that’s her. She’s so lovely … and she took my shoes off and gave me a table, pineapple. So you’re the best. Thank you so much.”
Bethenny Frankel thanked the woman from Magic Boutique in Nasara, Costa Rica
Credit: bethennyfrankel/Instagram
Although she quipped, “I live here now until I can move,” Frankel has, in the past, been candid about her health setbacks.
She shared that she’s “not doing that great” in her struggle with POTS, and disclosed in January that she has been diagnosed with stage 2 liver disease.
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At the time, Frankel said she wanted to come forward about her medical issues because “maybe this is something I’ll have to deal with forever, but I just wanted to tell you because I think it’s important to go get all your bloodwork done.”
“Be thorough,” she stressed, “then do the follow-ups for anything that seems like an outlier. And frankly, get your bloodwork done maybe six months and then six months later, because different stuff could come up and sometimes it’s an aberration and sometimes it means something.”
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