


Kendra Wilkinson is opening up about her time in the Playboy mansion.
The former Playmate and girlfriend of the late Hugh Hefner appeared on the “I Do, Part 2” podcast on Thursday, and spoke about one of the hardest parts about her time in the house.
Wilkinson, who first moved into the house when she was just 18 and left at 23, said that people often overlook the work that went into filming the Playboy reality show, “The Girls Next Door.”
“A lot of people focus a lot on like, ‘Oh, you did Playboy, Playboy, Playboy,’” Wilkinson said. “But no one really focuses on, like, what it took to actually shoot a reality TV show and what it does ... how much it takes.”
“It took every ounce of my soul,” Wilkinson, now 39, said. “Like, that’s why they call it, ‘Sell the soul to the devil.’”
“I sold my soul to the goddamn devil,” she added. “There’s a price to pay with that. There’s a major price to pay with that. I have a lot of regrets when it comes to ― I don’t have regrets with Playboy and all that, but I have regrets on where things went with show business.”

While Wilkinson said in the interview that she doesn’t have regrets with Playboy, she once told People magazine in 2024 that “Playboy really messed my whole life up” and that living in the mansion affected her self-esteem.
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“I hated my boobs, my body, my face. I got to that point where I started hating myself,” she told the outlet at the time.
She also questions some of the things that happened to her in the house, and some of the decisions that were seemingly made for her.
“Why did I have sex with Hugh Hefner at that age? Why did I do that?” Wilkinson said. “Why did I go to the mansion in the first place? Why did I get big boobs? Why am I a sex symbol? Why did I bleach blonde my hair? Why did I do this to myself? Why did I?”