Kendra Wilkinson is sharing a confession about her days romancing Playboy’s late kingpin.
“The Girls Next Door” alum bought candid about her previous relationship with Hugh Hefner and the way it impacted her views on intimacy.
“Look, I struggle still to this day with my relationships and my views on sex,” Wilkinson, 39, stated on Friday’s episode of the “Amy & T.J.” podcast.
“I had to go through a lot of therapy, and they looked at me and they’re like — this is the first time I’m admitting this — but they’re like, ‘You might have a little bit of a sex problem. You have a little bit of a problem when it comes to thinking of sex,’” she confessed.
Wilkinson turned considered one of Hefner’s girlfriends after the 2 met at his 78th celebration when she was simply 18 in 2004.
The fact tv star then moved into the Playboy Mansion with Hefner’s different girlfriends Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Wilkinson lived there for 5 years till she known as it quits with Hefner in 2009.
Host T.J. Holmes requested the “Kendra on Top” star how courting Hefner and being part of “that environment” impacted her in the long term.
“Again, you’re a teenager,” the previous information anchor stated. “You hadn’t been necessarily exposed to healthy relationships at that point in your life, but it puts you on a certain path — what did that do to you and [how did it] shape what you thought a relationship was, should be, and the type of person you were interested in?”
Wilkinson confessed that it brought on her to have “just unhealthy thoughts.”
“Not really settling for a marriage and stuff like that,” she expanded, ‘Which is not, I wouldn’t say unhealthy — I’m saying that everybody has their decisions, and a few individuals wanna be single, some individuals wanna be married … and I’m extra of a enjoyable concept sort of individual.”
In 2016, Wilkinson revealed she was untrue to Hefner throughout their relationship.
“I wasn’t there for romantic reasons and for marital reasons like Holly was,” she stated whereas on the “Kocktails With Khloe” podcast on the time. “I had a great time.”
Added Wilkinson, “I swear on my two kids — I never hooked up with one person in the mansion while being with Hef. I have that much respect. I would go to hotels down the street.”
The mannequin went on to tie the knot with former soccer participant Hank Baskett in 2009 and the pair share son Hank, 15, and daughter Alijah, 10. Baskett and Wilkinson divorced in 2018.
“I found myself so bored at the Playboy Mansion. I was just like, “I’m ready to leave this place. I’m ready to start a family. I’m ready for the lifestyle: My kids go to a great school. I’m a soccer mom. I’m a softball mom. I’m a basketball mom,’” Wilkinson informed Holmes and cohost Amy Robach. “I manifested it, and it came to me, and I met the perfect man, the man of my dreams.”
To today, Wilkinson likes to take a look at her time as a spouse and a mom because the “the golden years.”
“When those days came to an end, I crumbled so hard and it almost killed me,” she defined. “It almost killed me.”
Regardless of the dishonest scandal that broke the true property agent and athlete up, the 2 nonetheless have an important co-parenting relationship.
As Wilkinson put it, “Even though we’re divorced, he’s the father of my kids and he’s the most amazing father to my kids, and I know I chose right with him.”
After six years of remedy, Wilkinson was completely happy to share she now lives “in the state of peace of mind.”
“You know, I’m on good meds,” she gushed. I’m simply in a very good place.”
