Sophia Michaels
“The best thing about this job is that I was able to get out of it when I wanted,” she said.
The story goes that Bethenny Frankel was working as a hostess at the posh Italian eatery La Scala in Beverly Hills when she got plucked up by none other than socialite and matriarch Kathy Hilton to work in her gift store, The Staircase. “I think I was making $8 an hour overall. That’s what I used to make at La Scala too,” Frankel revealed in a video she posted to her Instagram account.
Sadly, however, wrapping high-end gifts wasn’t exactly Frankel’s strong suit. “I was the worst gift wrapper ever,” Bethenny confessed.
The story goes that Bethenny Frankel was working as a hostess at the posh Italian eatery La Scala in Beverly Hills when she got plucked up by none other than socialite and matriarch Kathy Hilton to work in her gift store, The Staircase. “I think I was making $8 an hour overall. That’s what I used to make at La Scala too,” Frankel revealed in a video she posted to her Instagram account. Sadly, however, wrapping high-end gifts wasn’t exactly Frankel’s strong suit. “I was the worst gift wrapper ever,” Bethenny confessed.
Eventually, Frankel moved from gift wrapping to nannying for Hilton’s now-famous daughters, Paris and Nicky Hilton. “Part of the job became coming, in my Ford Probe, to get you and Nicky from Lycée, this sort of fancy French school,” Frankel recalled to Paris during an episode of her “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” podcast. “And I remember we’d go with Kyle [Richards] to the Mobile Mart or the gas station after. And I would take you guys ice skating,” she remembered.
Alas, even while working for the affluent Hilton family, Frankel’s life proved to be anything but glamorous.
