Life as a Playboy bunny wasn’t always easy! Holly Madison Kendra Wilkinson’s relationship has been rocky since they lived in the Playboy Mansion during their respective relationships with Hugh Hefner.
Madison, on the other hand, first met Hefner in 2001, after she attended one or more of the weekly pool parties held at the mansion. In her 2015 memoir, the ex-Alaska resident detailed her decision for moving into the house. Down the Rabbit Hole: The Curious Adventures and Warning Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
“I thought I was an adult and thought I was making my free choice. And I was. But I wasn’t sophisticated or really prepared. And kind of got in over my head,” she wrote. “I could understand how people thought it was strange. But I guess I wasn’t comfortable enough to explain why I thought it would be fun or why I thought it would be a good idea.”
Wilkinson, meanwhile, worked Hefner’s 78th birthday party in 2004 and moved in soon after.
“Hef asked me to be one of his girlfriends, and live in the mansion and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, I’m here!’” she recalled on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!2014. “I was living in this small-ass apartment with this ugly-ass bitch. I was praying for any way to get out of that place. … I moved in and weeks went by and I didn’t know that sex was involved. I had no idea about. Playboy, I’d just graduated high school.”
Also with Bridget Marquardt, the trio became known as more than just Hefner’s girlfriends as E! Cameras were installed behind the walls of the mansion to capture the moments. The Girls Next Door. The reality series aired for five seasons and was first broadcast in August 2005. It featured Madison, Marquardt, and Wilkinson as its stars. The sixth and final season saw the three women, but their romance with Hefner ended in 2008.
As a result, season 6 included Hefner’s new ladies, Crystal Hefner (née Harris) twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon.
Madison and Wilkinson seemed to be on good terms throughout and after the incidentGirls Next Door it didn’t take long for relationship to crumble.
“At the end of the day, it’s a very awkward situation ’cause it’s not like we’re The Spice Girls,” Wilkinson said on Fox 5’s Good Day New York2015. “We dated an 80-year-old man at the same time. It’s very awkward. She may want to distance herself from this situation. She should, God bless her. It’s embarrassing because I saw some things that she probably doesn’t want me to talk about.”
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