Kelly Bensimon dating an ‘amazing athlete’ months after A-Rod romance rumors

Kelly Bensimon has hit one other dwelling dawdle within the game of affection.

The “Exact Housewives of Unique York Metropolis” alum, 53, tells Page Six in an bizarre interview that she is dating an “amazing athlete” — months after her rumored romance with Unique York Yankees memoir Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez. 

“I’m no longer single. I genuinely comprise a boyfriend and he’s implausible. He’s a terrific athlete,” Bensimon says, playing coy on the identity of her new thriller man.

“[He’s] very, very tidy. So I genuinely feel genuinely blessed to know him and I’m genuinely angry to undercover agent the build it goes with him,” she adds, extra gushing, “He’s very, very proficient in sports actions. I to find it irresistible. So animated!”

Bensimon used to be linked to Rodriguez, 46, in November 2021 following his shatter up from Jennifer Lopez that spring.

Page Six exclusively reported on the time that the 2 had engaged in flirtations over text.

“I’ve known A-Rod for a actually lengthy time. There used to be a rumor about us dating a actually lengthy time ago and I’ve met him multiple times,” Bensimon explains in our most modern interview.

“He used to be single. I used to be single. He’s a extensive texter.”

The OG Bravo celebrity — who now works as a Douglas Elliman real estate agent at the side of her personal personnel representing multimillion-greenback properties in Unique York, the Hamptons and South Florida — confirms a previous commentary from Rodriguez’s safe that her exchanges with the athlete-grew to become-real estate investor had been for “alternate functions.” 

On the opposite hand, Bensimon means that the 2 discussed extra than appropriate listings and past-time charges. 

“We had been engaged on some initiatives together, as well to him being a terrific texter. And I appropriate mediate he’s an infinite guy … He’s been nothing but charming, taking part, sweet [and he’s a] appropriate father,” she says of Rodriguez, who shares daughters Natasha, 17, and Ella, 13, with ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis.

“So I genuinely comprise moderately heaps of appreciate for him,” she adds.

The “I Can Put You Scorching!” author additionally has ample appreciate for her new beau to no longer parade their relationship on truth TV, might maybe maybe merely peaceable she be chosen to take part in the forthcoming “RHONY: Legacy” sequence. 

“I’ve in any appreciate times been very private, as you perceive. I don’t discuss my boyfriends, even my ex-husband [Gilles Bensimon],” she says, noting that she on occasion mentioned the renowned vogue photographer at some stage in her three-season dawdle on “RHONY” from 2009 to 2011. 

“I kept him very private for glaring causes. I don’t recall to utilize males. It’s genuinely no longer my alternate model.”

Slightly, the historical model — who shares daughters Sea, 24, and Teddy, 22, with Gilles, 78 — likes to “rejoice” males and “snuggle with” them. 

“I’m very blissful appropriate now. I’ve met moderately heaps of genuinely implausible males in my life and I appropriate recall to protect all of that the build it belongs,” she says, adding with fun, “… in mattress!”