United Kingdom, Aug. 12 -- Bethenny Frankel is "afraid" to date.

The Real Housewives of New York City star - who has been married twice and previously dated Tom Villante and was engaged to Paul Bernon for three years until May 2024 - can't "bring herself" to start looking for love again because the bad experiences she has had in the past has made her too "hesitant" to put herself back out there.

She said in a TikTok video: "I'm afraid to date. It's not like I'm actually actively afraid. It's like, I am so hesitant, because you know how, like, when you get food poisoning, you're just scared to eat that food again, even though rationally you know that, like, you're likely not gonna get food poisoning again from that same food, but you jus...