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Bethenny Frankel's mother, from whom the reality star is estranged, is still fighting her way toward the spotlight at her daughter's expense.

FrankelMomE230.jpgBernadette Birk tells Star that her daughter's marriage to businessman Jason Hoppy (above) will end. The two wed in March 2010. Bethenny's look-a-like mom (left) says:

    "Right now, he is a good father, but soon she [Bethenny] won't need him and she will dump him. ... Her husband seems like a really nice guy, but it won't last. He is really too weak for her."


Frankel has been open about her relationship with her mother on her Bravo reality show, Bethenny Ever After. Frankel says her mother was never really a parent, and was often more consumed with unhealthy relationships than with being a mom.

Like mother, like daughter? Who do you think is telling the truth?