Rebecca Minkoff is facing backlash over Real Housewives pregnancy joke

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Rebecca minkoff is being criticized for a pregnancy joke she recently pulled on an episode of The Real Housewives of New York.

On Tuesday’s (Nov. 12) episode of the Bravo reality show, the 42-year-old fashion designer enlisted the help of fellow cast member Erin Lichy to trick Jenna Lyons, Sai De Silva, Jessel Taank, Brynn Whitfield and Ubah Hassan into believing was expectation.

Lichy, 37, first spoke to Whitfield, 38, and Lyons, 56, when she planted the fake pregnancy seed. “It’s very, very early, and she’s very stressed about it,” Lichy said of Minkoff.

The real estate agent continued the ruse for the fashion mogul, telling their friends that Minkoff was unsure if her husband, Gavin Bellour, was the baby’s father. Soon, Whitfield was so convinced of the joke that she reportedly spoke to Bellour about the news.

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Minkoff and Lichy had then talked it out during a group meeting to make it seem like Minkoff was angry at her friend for revealing her “secret.”

Although viewers were aware of the lie, with Minkoff and Lichy seen giggling off-camera about their “believable” story, fans weren’t too happy that the entire episode focused on the fake pregnancy storyline – and so did executive producer Andy Cohen not. .

After the episode aired, Cohen spoke with Expand alum Jeff Lewis op Watch what’s happening live and agreed that the false pregnancy plot was a “bad move.”

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“I’m not a fan of jokes, I have to be honest,” the talk show host said, before Lewis added: “I think it’s a bad move. I think it’s self-production. I think you lose confidence in you lose your audience. I think it’s a bad move.

Online, fans agreed the joke wasn’t funny, with some calling it “stupid” and “embarrassing” for the show.

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“The whole Rebecca Minkoff pregnancy thing being a joke is really stupid,” one viewer wrote on X/Twitter. “But to then frame an entire episode around it (and also tease it in the season trailer) as if it were true is honestly just a waste of time.”

Another fan wrote: “We should have known this pregnancy rumor would be a joke. We’ve already caught editors who had Brynn and Rebecca Minkoff self-produce on the previous episodes. This is just embarrassing.”

“Wow, somehow Brynn and Erin have managed to produce drama that is more boring and exhausting,” a third user commented, while a fourth said: “The ‘joke’ would have been okay if the producers had been there hadn’t framed an entire episode around it. AND put it in the previews.”