United Kingdom, March 5 -- Bethenny Frankel doesn't think a return to Real Housewives would be "good for business".

The 55-year-old star has opened up on her decision not to join some of her fellow Real Housewives of New York City alumni on new spinoff series The Golden Life.

In an Instagram video, she said: "It used to be good when I was promoting my own business.

"But now that I work with a lot of other brands and have different types of equity deals and partners, they don't look highly upon that genre.

"They kind of like that's it's in the rearview."

Bethenny rose to fame on the Bravo show, and she thinks even if the E! spinoff had the money to bring her back, the other cast would "resent" her for it.

She insisted: "Despite some ...