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It’s over for Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy, with the pair calling it quits after two years of marriage.

With speculation about their union reaching fever pitch in recent weeks, Frankel announced the news of the split on Dec.23.

“This was an extremely difficult decision that as a woman and a mother, I  have to accept as the best choice for our family,” Frankel tells Us Weekly, adding that the situation brings her “great  sadness.”

“We have love and respect for one another and will  continue to amicably co-parent our daughter who is and will always remain our  first priority. This is an immensely painful and heartbreaking time for us,” she added.

Just last week, we brought you the report from In Touch magazine, where a source told the mag, that Frankel was consulting divorce lawyers.

“She told him they are done,” a source close to the couple tells the new issue of In Touch, on newsstands now. “She’s meeting with lawyers and just figuring out the next steps. It’s over.”

Adds an insider: “They’ve had their exit plan in mind for months. It’s really just a matter of when they’ll file.” Sources say that moment could be coming sooner rather than later. On Dec. 9 in NYC, a somber-looking Bethenny ran errands near the couple’s Tribeca apartment with their 2-year-old daughter, Bryn, in her arms — and without a wedding ring on her finger.

“This has been bubbling up for a year,” added a friend of Bethenny’s, whose marital ups and downs were chronicled on her Bravo reality series, “Bethenny Ever After”. “Over the summer they spent time apart. She lived in the Hamptons for six weeks with Bryn while Jason stayed home in New York.”

Bethenny, 42, met Jason, 41, in 2009, while filming the third season of The Real Housewives of New York and married just 16 months later. Originally, his calm, gentle demeanor complemented the reality star turned entrepreneur’s Type-A personality, but now a source says, “She’s more ambitious than he is.”

“Bethenny will never show it, but she’s devastated that it didn’t work,” says the friend of the self-proclaimed perfectionist. “She wanted it all — the career, the husband and the family.”