Likewise, a married man who smokes more than a pack a day is likely to live as long as a divorced man who doesn't smoke.

Her friend, Pat, the divorced mother of three, is struggling to make ends meet

They're more likely to be widowed, and if they're the ones who become ill, they're more likely to get divorced.

So Frankie in both real life and in the TV show lives in New York city, is a comic, is divorced, and has two little daughters.