Bethenny Frankel used to get drunk and binge eat

Bethenny Frankel hasn’t always been so health-conscious. The Bethenny Getting Married? star — who has created an empire with her Naturally Thin diet books and exercise DVD — admits she used to suffer from an eating disorder.

“I used to get drunk and binge on everything in the deli, and then do a juice fast or starve, then do it all over again,” Frankel tells the January issue of Redbook.

Frankel says that when she learned she was pregnant with daughter Bryn in 2009, she was determined to not overeat “out of emotion.”

“Most people treat pregnancy like the big binge, and then they can’t take the excess weight off so they go on a crash diet,” she said.

“When people find out you’re pregnant, they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re going to gain all this weight, and you’re going to get hemorrhoids, and you’re not going to be able to go to the bathroom.’ I didn’t listen to anyone; I knew I was going to do it my way.”

Recent reports claimed Frankel will try and get pregnant for the next season of her Bravo reality show.

“Bethenny pulled out all the shots to make sure she got her own show including getting married and having a baby, now she has to figure out what she’s going to do next to keep viewers watching,” a source told PopEater.

“She’s a reality show pro, so don’t think for one minute anything is off the table. Success means everything to her. Without her TV show she wouldn’t have made millions selling books and endorsing products. If she’s willing to trash her own mother and father on TV she will definitely let cameras follow her trying to get pregnant again. Then after she does she will write a book about it.”