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Cleanup in Aisle Skinnygirl: Cocktails Yanked from Whole Foods Shelves for Not So Natural Ingredients

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Whole Foods shoppers will no longer find Bethenny Frankel's Skinnygirl cocktails on the store's shelves. After discovering that the "natural" ingredients in the cocktails may be quite unnatural, the market pulled the beverages from its stores. Skinnygirl's slogan, "Open. Pour. Accessorize." must actually mean to supplement drinkers' bodies with mysterious substances.

Though the product removal has not been addressed on the Whole Foods or Skinnygirl websites, Huffington Post's Naughty But Nice Rob got the skinny from a local nutritionist and a Whole Foods store employee.

“There are no ingredients listed on the bottle,” one nutritionist tells me. “Bethenny has been promoting the drink on and off-camera for years [as] full of 'natural flavors, lightly sweetened with agave nectar and made with premium Blue Agave clear tequila,' but that’s about all we know about its ingredients."

One of the original five housewives in "The Real Housewives of New York City," the reality star reportedly advises friends that "you have to fake it to make it." This motto does not sit well with Whole Foods.

“Whole Foods isn’t about faking anything,” a store worker, who did not have permission to speak on behalf of the company, told me. “The store prides itself in selling the best quality whole products that our high-end consumers expect. Not novelty products that are shaded with secrecy.”

Sorry, Frankel. The skinny girl does not always rule.

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