Just B Rant: Princess Problems

Published Mar 15, 2024, 4:35 PM

Where is the Princess? How much of what we’re seeing and being told is real, and how much isn’t? The longer we go without answers, the more mysterious it gets. Bethenny details everything we have to go on and what she believes is really happening. 

Plus, who is loving on J. Lo?

Let's talk about Princess Kate. So let's go through some scenarios. Let's say number one, she is ill or recovering until Easter. As stated, she may not look the way that she wants to present, and she posted a picture to buy time.

She got caught, and now.

They're figuring out what to do about that, and they apologize for the edit, whether she did it or someone else. They are acknowledging that the picture was manipulated, which we already knew, not me, but people. And so now she still doesn't want to be seen because of whatever is ailing her. Okay, let's say number two, she has something worse wrong with her, God forbid, and she is in many ways the glowing face of the monarch. It's not Camilla, it's certainly not Charles. He's not Queen Elizabeth. William doesn't have the same charisma that we saw with Diana, and that the woman in that family seems to be the shining beacon of hope. So let's pretend that she has something worse wrong. And they are not ready to say that because King Charles has been ailing also, and they're trying to devise a plan because that you know, the forward facing aspect of the monarchy is the monarchy. Let's say that they're having some marital issues or something happened. She has some sort of leverage and she's not willing to do her royal duties until whatever that matter.

Is is resolved.

Do we feel like we are owed an explanation for what exactly is wrong with her medically if there is something, because she's like, you know, it's not like she's the president where she can press the button, but she reflects stability that people feel when they see the.

Royal family in place.

There's a lot of talk about Harry and Meghan remained relatively quiet since they left. It's an interesting time because had they not left, they would be doing performing the royal duties. But it doesn't seem like they wanted that gig to begin with, or they didn't want that gig in sort of the secondary, more understudy role, but now they would be having the main role, particularly Megan.

So that's an interesting dynamic as well.

And I don't know if you can go home again because I don't know that King Charles would say, hey, come on back in. That's just a spectacle for everyone that would be frothy and frenzied. The fact remains that the question is should everybody know everything about anyone in power? Is that what people, well, I would say, sign up for, but they didn't even sign up.

This is what they were born into.

So you're born into that, no matter what happens to you, no matter what you feel, no matter what therapy you go through, no matter what medical situation you have, no matter what your reasons are, that you must tell everybody everything. And I think the answer is no. They have so many secrets and they always have. I think the photo was the tipping point because it's been filtered and edited, and then that shows that not everything is what it seems. But I think that not everything is what it seems is obvious and we're just stupid to think that every picture that we've ever seen has been something that is based in fact. And so that's the problem. We are the problem.

It's us.

They say, he who makes the gold makes the rules, and there is no place with more gold than the royal family. But it is my opinion that it is not he who makes the gold that makes the rules and the royal family, it is she who wears the gold that makes the rules.

Because Queen Elizabeth made the rules.

Princess Diana was underestimated, but she had a tremendous amount of power. And now if King Charles has experienced illness, and it's not Camilla that has any sort of public power, Princess Kate has the heaviest crown of them all. She's the forward facing, soothing comfort that the public wants and needs. And if anything has been happening in her marriage that is untoward.

She has all the power.

She has the leverage because she is completely needed. She is something that will calm people's nerves in the absence of the queen. She's a female presence and the monarchy which is needed. And for whatever reason, it's just not Camilla. She doesn't have the light, she doesn't command the presence. It was Diana. It's unclear whether it was or would have been Megan had she stayed, which it's clear that she didn't want to, she would have to step in now. But there was no room for I guess her to feel as if there was an understudy when Kate was the leading role, or she didn't. She and Harry just wanted to live their private lives, as they've stated, so either way, Kate has a tremendous amount of leverage and power and we've never seen that more than now. And just don't ever underestimate women. I guess that's what the last few years have taught us. But this is a very interesting time because she has a lot of power and I hope she's okay. But in the event that something has happened in their marriage and she just does not want to perform her royal duties, that's going to be an interesting post nup. I am watching the greatest Love Story Never told, the Jennifer Lopez documentary about the fantasy movie that she made about her relationships, and.

I'm feeling it.

I'm going to say, honestly, I am feeling it.

I am connecting to her.

I am giving it to her like she is makeup free, she is vanity free. She has illustrated and delineated that j Lo is a persona and a part of her and who she always wanted to be, but a separate character, if you will, and that Jennifer is who she is. I'm not even sure that she's Jenny from the block. I think she's just Jennifer and the heartbreak she's experienced and she's acknowledging that she's flawed. She really is vulnerable about her relationship and leaning into the Ben and her chapter as older people, I'm telling you, this is what happens when you crack fifty. This is what happens, like you just have to let some things go. You have to be honest about who you really are. You can't just cling on and hold on to things that aren't useful to you. It's just not possible. It's just something you know, you could talk, you could tell young people. They can't understand until you hit there. It's a rite of passage. And she's hit there and Ben is hit there, and I'm just I can't even tell you that when they first got back together, you know, to I've met her and I know the people that work with her, but like, I don't know Ja Phi Lopez by any means, and from what I know of her, which is very little and just peripheral and outside looking in. But I've seen her with that makeup, and I've seen her, you know, at her house, and she is really vulnerable, and it's just I'm believing it, and I it's honest, honestly honest.

And when she got back together with Jen.

Like it was a headline to me, and it was, you know, like many other people, probably an eye roll, like, but the same thing would go on with me and my relationships in my life.

And I actually.

Am relating to her story a lot. You know, we don't know these celebrities their personas, and we don't know them. They're the We know them as the lyrics they sing in the image they portray, and they get to portray the image that they want us to receive. They get to service what they want to serve us. And here I don't get the sense that we're being served anything. I get the sense that she had cameras, took it seriously. She did this twenty million dollar project that she wanted to do from the bottom of her heart.

I don't I hope it's done well.

I mean from a curiosity and probably viewing perspective, it's probably done well. But it's an expensive jugger not And it doesn't matter because she wanted to do it, and this is a documentary about it. But we're getting some slices of her and Ben and I relate to someone being in your life and like they just don't want any part of the spectacle, but he got into a relationship with Jennifer Lopez, and she's.

In the spectacle. She's part of the spectacle.

I really don't think he wants to go to the met Gala, but they're gonna go together because he's going to support her and she's supporting what he's doing.

And I don't know.

I'm just saying, I'm watching this, I'm seeing her cry and talk about her life, and it was heartbreak and the fact that she got her love back after all these years. I understand what she wants to sing from the goddamn rooftops, like that's insane. That's like lightning striking twice. It doesn't happen. So she was madly in love with this guy twenty years ago, and you know, he was like the bad boy and the gambler and the addict to be And think about how that worked. He hadn't grown, he hadn't matured, he hadn't become a father, he hadn't become a husband, and he hadn't become fifty either, And that they would get together twenty years later. And I had heard that they did have connection for all those years, and I'm sure they were both the one that got away, but it was just too much for them to handle. And I really do relate to that, but I just don't relate to getting your love back twenty years later and having this second chance. And so she's like bursting out because who gives a shit about the persona j Low and the career and all that stuff. She knows that all of that is amazing, and she's accomplished that, and she's conquered that, and she's made the money, but like what's harder and what's always slipped through her fingers is accomplishing the relationship and the partnership and the bond. And they kind of explained that a lot of people didn't want to be part of her project because well, some people felt that like it's so precious, poetically and perfectly. Jane Fonda was resistant and hesitant and really wanted this relationship to work for her. And Jane Fawn is older and wiser than Jennifer, and she realizes that love is precious and hard to find, and youth is wasted on the young, and you know, if you find it, cherish it and protected and.

Don't let it go.

And so Jane fawd it seems to not have wanted Jennifer to, you know, tamper.

With that or exploit that in any way.

And I get that because Ben wrote all these letters to her over the years, and she had it in a studio and was showing people because she's an expressionist and she's passionate about it and she wants to sing about it and she wants to share it. And she also is that vulnerable little girl that wants us to know she's made it.

She also wants us to know she's not.

You know, the flaw, the flawed, hopeless romantic that can't hold a relationship. I fully understand that too, And she just don't want to seem like a failure. She's a winner in her career, so she doesn't want to seem like a failure in relationship. And the first time she feels like a winner in relationship, she wants to share it. And Ben, you know, he's been through his own journey and he wants to hold it close to the vest. And he's a writer and a different type of creator and a director and a movie producer who creates quietly and has a different process. The Duncan thing is really fun and he gets to be humorous, but it's not him and it's not about his life and it's not vulnerable, and you know, it's an extension of being with his boys in the car, you know, on Goodwill hunting. What she's doing is a departure for him, but he has to support her as an artist because that's who he's in a relationship. But then she has to support the fact that he's not comfortable with it because that's who she's in a relationship with. I don't know, I'm enjoying it. I think it's great. I know Elaine. I almost worked on a project with Elaine years ago. I know Benny too, and good for all of them. She honestly has a good support system around her. She's got a team of teflon around her and that's really hard to find and out of one has that, And I mean they're like rde or die. They're like in it for the long haul every day. I've definitely never had that. I love her and Ben, so I don't know what I thought or said in the beginning, and I didn't know anything, but I will say that I'm fully team Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck and I'm into this movie and I saw the Fantasy Movie, and now I'm getting the Fantasy movie, and it was her passion project. And when she said purple Rain, that made sense to me too, because she was saying, Prince did like his opus if I were.

Ordering it on a menu.

I want more of I want less of this documentary to be about the making of the Fantasy movie.

I want to like get that.

Clutter out of the way, and I want to hear more of her talking about her life and her journey and her like she went there, but she was still a little fraid. She didn't fully go vulnerable about her as a parent, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as a parent, famous kids. You know more about her and then whatever she sort of feels comfortable sharing, or just her own experience in relationship and her own experience and the mistakes that she's made and the mistakes that she's made in career and her fears. And I'm interested in that. So I watched the Fantasy thing thinking it was going to be the documentary, and now watching the documentary and it's giving me a lot, But I like want the raw raw like we're like it's now like a raw slightly polished diamond, But like, I want to see the uncut gem because this is the first time I've connected to, related to, understood and sympathized with empathy and empathy for Jennifer Lopez in this way. So I think it's very interesting and this is definitely a new chapter for her.

Certainly is her now. The amount that Jennifer.

Lopez works is astonishing at this age to be putting every ounce and fiber of your being into every choreography, note, casting, wardrobe, makeup, and you know that she's traveling around the world, going in different fashion weeks and hanging out with Dultacabana and doing the mech galistairs and being a wife and having kids. I have to say, I can't even believe the level. I don't know how she doesn't fry and burn out. It just I just did a movie for fourteen days and I did one sentilla of what she just did in this movie that she paid twenty million dollars for, and I was like, that's a lot of work. I just it's not for the fan of heart. This woman is a machine, like a machine full on and I'm a machine, different type of machine, but this one is She's a machine. Facts woke up still thinking about the Jennifer Lopez documentary because the part that I didn't talk about was how hard she works and pushes. And I bet people wonder why, like to what end? You know, you're like a machine pushing. And then people will say things like, you know, life's too short, or it's about family, or it's about love and when you get older, it doesn't matter how.

Much money you have, and all these things are true. There's a lot of time.

Like I know, there's not a lot of time in the sense that we're getting older, but you know, in a day, your kids go to school, your other everyone's busy, everyone's got families, and sometimes working is it's like it's something to do. I don't know if that makes any sense, Like it gives me purpose. It's something to do. If you're not a person who works out as like a like a hobby, I can't explain it, Like if you're not a person who works out like as a time filler, and you're not a shopper who shops as a time filler, which I presume someone like Jennifer Lopez is not. She enjoys it, but it's not like that would be something she would do as an activity. Same thing with working at She I don't work out, but she seems like she works out because she wants to be in shape and look good and be able to eat, not like she, you know, wants to be a person that works out and lunches.

So then what is there.

Your kids have their own lives, you spend time with them, you spend families, But like you want to have purpose, you want to say something, you have something coming out of you that you want to express.

And I really do get that because I have.

My most certain identity in work, like I know where I'm supposed to be, I know what time I'm supposed to be there, I know what I'm supposed to do.

I know how I'm supposed to do it.

Well, I can do that.

The personal life and like what do you do otherwise is very hard for me.

I'm not very social, and so it's like.

Counterintuitive to just make plans, to make plans when even though people say, like social connectivity.

Is so critical, I get that.

It's just that some people have places where they're more comfortable in their identity. Some people it is shopping. It's not even talking bad about that I love to shop on vacation and you know, don't go to museums as much, and that could be shameful, but it's true. So some people like really are good at like I'm getting up, I'm going to pilates, then I'm meeting a front for lunch, then I'm doing this. I'm just not good at that, Like I don't. It doesn't make any sense to me. So everyone has different things that they're good at, you know, or that not that they're good at that like makes sense to them.

For some people, it's being.

The mom that's very involved in school activities, you know, like making costumes and sports mom, like the sports kid mom. That's very much someone's identity, Like that's what they pride themselves on, that's what they're good at.

That's where they get validation in some ways.

Things like that everyone's got, you know, fathers, they're in the midlife crisis and they find purpose in coaching a kid's team. You know, some people it's learning a new language, some people starting a new business. Some people it's charity. Everybody it's different. But I understand why Jennifer Lopez chooses to work so hard and to keep pushing and I think that that documentary kind of showed that, and the fact that she did that project to a twenty five out of ten shows that it doesn't matter if.

She's doing it, she's doing it, which I relate to.

Also, I never related to her as much as after seeing that documentary because it's like, we're doing it. I always say, if we're going, we're going, We're not going with sleeping. And when she was like I'm doing nothing all weekend, she meant it like she meant she was laying down, dissolving, and then she was going right back there and getting herself exhausted again. I really relate to that because I know where my identity is when I'm supposed to be somewhere for work, and I get excited sometimes when I'm asked to do something for work because it means I'm going to leave my house and go somewhere. The greatest love story ever told is the documentary. This Is Me Now is her album, and that like fantasy portrayal of it. And I would rather have had the greatest love story ever told, not called that. I would have it have been Jennifer Lopez on Finding Love, on finding true Love, but.

The message was there.

I just want to see I want to see more of Jennifer and less of Jennifer doing.

A movie about her album.

Also, it's funny because in the documentary she's saying, like, if it doesn't do well, then you know she was taking a chance. She was basically saying, I'm going for it, and I'm taking the chance, and it may bomb and it may succeed. And what's funny is I don't even know in twenty twenty three, if you can know what bombs and what succeeded, she's Jennifer Lopez. So even if a lot of people were talking about it, it's kind of a success, like and it's about the bottom line in many ways, and if she made money on it, which she did sell it, then it's a success.

So she sold it.

I don't know how much she sold it for because they say it cost her twenty million dollars.

Well what if she sold it? What if she sold it for five million or even ten million.

But she got the promotion for the album, so I'm sure it wasn't a failure.

At the very least, it was probably a break.

Even there was a L'Oreal Miscera ad by an influencer and it got panned in many ways, but so many people came to the ad, over fifty million people, and it was viral that it was a success because people know about the mascara. So success and failure are friends now because you can get I bet you more people know who Jay Shetty is than they ever did before, even though he's kind of being canceled, but it seems like he's just on his page posting as if it's normal. So I don't even know if it matters

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