Why Girls Next Door’s Kendra Wilkinson Won't Hide Past From Her Kids

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Kendra Wilkinson’s Son Hank is All Grown Up successful Rare Photo!

Kendra Wilkinson plans to beryllium an unfastened publication with her kids. 

Indeed, The Girls Next Door alum precocious shared wherefore she won’t support her past surviving successful the Playboy Mansion alongside Hugh Hefner from her kids Hank Jr., 14, and Alijah, 10—whom she shares with ex Hank Baskett

“I don’t hide,” Kendra told E! News successful an exclusive interrogation astatine the American Reality Television Awards Nov. 18. “The 1 happening I don't bash is fell my past from the kids.”

But Kendra admits that her openness didn’t ever travel truthful easily. 

“I person done truthful overmuch enactment connected myself, done therapy and done meds and done thing I perchance tin bash to truly travel to bid with everything, similar I burned retired with worry,” she explained. “I'm done with worrying.”

Indeed, Kendra said that uncovering solace successful her past has been “the biggest part” of her idiosyncratic evolution. 

“It's telling,” she continued. “I'm capable to archer the kids what ma has been through, not fell anything, amusement them that you tin beryllium good done thing and everything, and you tin enactment your mode past thing successful the satellite and beryllium okay.”

And portion the 39-year-old plans to stock it, she has besides accepted that not each portion of her past volition beryllium memories she’ll needfully privation to recall.

“These past 20 years of reality TV haven't been conscionable glorious and happiness and cutesy,” she added. “It's been a immense up and down roller coaster ride. I'm truthful blessed to person it.”

Still, Kendra insisted that she won’t beryllium keeping thing from her brood. 

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“If they privation to cognize something, they inquire and I archer them,” she emphasized. “We conscionable person a precise unfastened communication, relationship, and they admit that truthful much.”

Kendra besides alluded to her kids’ understanding. After all, she admitted that the event—during which she acted arsenic a presenter—conflicted with her son’s archetypal precocious schoolhouse basketball game

“He was like, ‘Mama, there's going to beryllium millions of games,’” she said of her son’s enactment successful her attending the 11th yearly grant amusement implicit his ain milestone, arsenic she expressed disappointment, “It’s astonishing to ticker him play. He’s connected his way to the NBA, period.”

To spot wherever Kendra and much Girls Next Door stars are today, support reading...

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Kendra Wilkinson

Kendra Wilkinson was one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's 3 live-in girlfriends erstwhile the amusement premiered successful 2005. Fans were so invested successful Wilkinson that she got her ain spin-off show, Kendra, connected E! aft leaving the bid successful 2009.

Her subsequent WE tv series, Kendra On Top, which followed her travel arsenic a parent of two, lad Hank IV (born Sept. 11, 2009) and girl Alijah (May 16, 2014), and her matrimony to NFL player Hank Baskett, who she swapped vows with astatine the Playboy Mansion connected June 27, 2009. 

The couple split up successful 2018 and their divorce was finalized the pursuing year. In 2021, Kendra's got a existent property licence and starring connected her ain Discovery+ series, Kendra Sells Hollywood.

And portion the bid is connected hiatus arsenic Kendra puts her existent property vocation connected pause, she has been teasing a caller world series arsenic of late. 

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Bridget Marquardt

From investigating the mansion's imaginable haunted past to readying Hef's birthday, Bridget was No. 1. Her tegument was acceptable to beryllium shown connected the Travel Channel's Bridget's Sexiest Beaches and she had cameos successful the likes of Entourage, The House Bunny and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Marquardt's involvement successful the paranormal has come full circle as big of the podcast Ghost Bunny, featuring interviews with celebs who've experienced the unexplainable and different heavy dives into assorted unsolved mysteries with the assistance of experts. She besides began hosting the Girls Next Level podcast with Holly Madison successful 2022. 

Once portion of an iconic trio, she happily paired disconnected agelong agone with spouse Nicholas Carpenter.

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Holly Madison

Holly Madison had a palmy vocation aft her tenure astatine the Playboy Mansion, including competing on Dancing with the Stars before getting her ain show, Holly's World, that centered astir her vocation successful Las Vegas, including her Peepshow residency.

She published a revealing memoir astir her clip successful the Playboy Mansion, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, in 2015, chasing that it with 2016's The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice and the Road to Reinvention.

The longtime PETA advocator is ma to girl Rainbow (March 5, 2013) and lad Forest (Aug. 7, 2016) with ex-husband Pasquale Rotella. 

In summation to participating successful the scathing A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy, she described having a analyzable narration with her Girl Next Door co-stars on a 2021 occurrence of the podcast Call Her Daddy. "Bridget and I person ever been close," she said. "We've ever been friends since time one. She is [the sweetest]." When asked if she had a narration with Kendra, Holly tersely replied, "No."

Indeed, Holly proves her and Bridget's enslaved each week connected the Girls Next Level podcast. She besides presently hosts Lethally Blonde connected Discovery Plus. 

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Crystal Harris

While each of the ladies of The Girls Next Door had a peculiar spot successful Hefner's heart, Crystal Harris actually married the Playboy mogul successful 2012, the then-86-year-old's 3rd travel down the aisle. They remained unneurotic until his decease successful 2017

After Holly spoke retired astir her narration with her co-stars, Crystal was speedy to prime a side. "I was astatine the mansion for a DECADE astir 4 years agone present and these ladies and their play were determination years earlier that," she wrote connected her MeWe account. "So overmuch clip has passed. I broadside with Kendra here."

"Not definite wherefore these women who shared an incredibly uncommon and uncommon acquisition (that volition ne'er beryllium repeated successful our lifetimes) can't get along?" she continued. "Maybe for the aforesaid reasons Holly and Bridget despise maine for perfectly NO reason. I anticipation 1 time we tin each get on and comparison experiences."

Crystal besides became an advocator for Lyme illness consciousness aft announcing she'd been diagnosed with the unwellness successful 2016.

In 2024, she debuted her narration with Jim Ward and announced she would beryllium reverting backmost to utilizing her maiden sanction aft going by Crystal Hefner pursuing her 2012 nuptials. 

"I'm successful a overmuch amended place," Crystal told E! News, 7 years aft Hefner's death. "Next measurement is decidedly going backmost to my archetypal past sanction and yet taking that past measurement to conscionable beryllium myself."

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Kristina and Karissa Shannon

After the archetypal procreation of The Girls Next Door girlfriends left, twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon moved into the Playboy Mansion successful 2009. During the remaining seasons, they celebrated their Playboy Summer Issue successful Vegas, went camping successful the backyard with Hef and prepared for spot parts in Sofia Coppola's Chateau Marmont-set movie Somewhere.

After the amusement wrapped, Kristina and Karissa joined the ninth play of Celebrity Big Brother and opened a salon together, Glam Beverly Hills.

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