Kendra Wilkinson revealed the one remorse she has from her time dwelling on the Playboy Mansion as certainly one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends alongside Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt.
“The one factor I can say I remorse in my life isn’t beginning my actual property profession whereas I used to be dwelling on the Playboy Mansion,” Wilkinson, 39, informed Fox News Digital in an interview revealed on Monday, June 11. “Like, I imply, I used to be surrounded by everybody, each celeb, each billionaire, and what was I pondering? However I’m now in actual property, so I’m good.”
Wilkinson began her actual property profession greater than a decade after transferring out of the Playboy Mansion in 2009. She handed her actual property examination in 2020, occurring to doc her new profession on the docuseries Kendra Sells Hollywood between 2021 and 2023. (Kendra Sells Hollywood’s two seasons at the moment are obtainable to stream on Max.)
She joined Mauricio Umansky’s luxurious actual property agency The Company in 2020, earlier than finally making the jump to Douglas Elliman in October 2023.
In the meantime, the Playboy Mansion went up on the market one 12 months earlier than Hefner’s dying at age 97 in 2017. Hefner’s staff initially requested $200 million for the historic Los Angeles dwelling, however finally bought it for under $100 million to Daren Metropoulos in August 2016. (As a part of the settlement, Hefner was allowed to dwell on the Playboy Mansion till his dying.)
Wilkinson not too long ago opened up about how her four-year relationship with Hefner impacted her intercourse life. She defined to Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes on their “Amy & T.J.” podcast that her time with Hefner contributed to her creating “unhealthy ideas” about intercourse and marriage.
“Look, I battle nonetheless to today with my relationships and my views on intercourse,” she acknowledged in March.
Hugh Hefner poses together with his three girlfriends on the Playboy Mansion in November 2004. Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs
Wilkinson was certainly one of Hefner’s three girlfriends between 2004 and 2008, earlier than occurring to marry NFL star Hank Baskett on the Playboy Mansion in 2009. Baskett and Wilkinson had two kids — son Hank, 15, and daughter Alijah, 10. (The previous couple divorced in 2018.)
She informed People in 2024 that her time on the Playboy Mansion “actually messed” up her life and brought about her to battle for a number of years.
“It’s not straightforward to look again at my 20s. I’ve needed to face my demons,” she stated.
She added, “It was the bottom place I’ve ever been in my life. I felt like I had no future. I couldn’t see in entrance of my melancholy. I used to be giving up and I couldn’t discover the sunshine. I had no hope.”
Wilkinson credited her hospitalization for panic assaults in September 2023 with getting her life again on observe.
“[My doctors] received me on the best meds, and I really feel like one million bucks tonight,” she stated at this week’s Operation Smile fundraiser. “I really feel superb. They received me via it. We talked via it. I realized quite a bit concerning the mind and the way we predict, how we behave. And it took numerous opening my coronary heart up, opening up my thoughts and actually simply dissecting every part that’s part of me. And it took me a very long time to heal and recuperate from quite a bit issues.”
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