Stop playing dress-up with your 4-year-old!
That was the order a Manhattan matrimonial judge handed down to former reality star Bethenny Frankel Thursday over the 43-year-old’s Instagram photo of herself wearing her daughter’s teeny-tiny Hello Kitty pajamas.
“No more pajamas!” Justice Ellen Gesmer warned Frankel’s attorney, Allan Mayefsky, in court.
The A-list lawyer, whose firm has represented Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband Peter Cook and Katie Holmes, tried to explain his client’s behavior by saying it was a joke.
But the stone-faced judge wasn’t laughing.
“It’s not a joke. Her child is not a joke,” said Gesmer, adding that the episode was “ridiculous.”
She continued that Frankel — who had tried to gain sole custody of her daughter with pharmaceutical executive Jason Hoppy, but then settled after an embarrassing trial in which she called him “white trash” — used poor judgment by posting the photograph online in July.
Gesmer even said that her own concerned friends called when they heard about Frankel’s posting, in which she wrote, “This is my daughter’s night gown and PJ shorts. Think we’re ready to start sharing clothes yet?”
Gesmer reminded Frankel that the image will live on the Internet for eternity.
A source told The Post that Hoppy was fuming over the incident, which critics said spoke volumes about the Skinnygirl cocktail mogul’s skeletal frame.
She admitted in a magazine interview in 2011 that she had a history of bingeing on junk foods, then going hungry to lose weight.
Frankel slinked out of court Thursday wearing a pajama-like ensemble of matching black and white silk pants and top. She declined to comment.
Hoppy’s lawyer, Bernard Clair, also declined to comment.
Frankel recently shot down reports that she’s returning to Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York” — the show that skyrocketed the Long Island native to fame in 2008.
The roles led to more reality shows and her diet enterprise, Skinnygirl.
The parties were in court this week to hash out financial information.
A trial to divide Frankel’s estimated $55 million fortune is expected to take place in the coming months.