Kendra Wilkinson has opened up about her experiences living at the Playboy Mansion.
Hugh Hefner initially moved into the notorious mansion in the 1970s, and it remained in operation until his passing in 2017.
Throughout its years of operation, numerous women called the Los Angeles residence home, including Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson, and Crystal Harris.
Wilkinson moved into the Mansion in 2004, quickly becoming one of Hefner’s three girlfriends at the time.
After departing in 2009, she married former NFL player Hank Baskett.
Following her relationship with Hefner, who was 60 years her senior, Wilkinson revealed that it impacted her subsequent relationships and led to ‘sex problems’.
“Look, I struggle still to this day with my relationships and my views on sex,” she stated on a recent episode of the I Do, Part 2 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.'”
In another segment of the episode, Wilkinson mentioned that, although she felt ‘sexualized’ while living there, she did not feel unsafe.
She admitted to having never experienced a ‘stable life’ and confessed that at 15, she resorted to selling cocaine to survive.
“I went looking for the wrong things,” Wilkinson shared. “I went looking for dark things. I went looking for fun. And I’m not saying that everything I did was dark and wrong. I’m saying that it was easy to take that one-way ticket to LA into the Playboy Mansion — how vulnerable I was.”
Despite some rumors about the treatment of individuals at the Mansion, Wilkinson expressed that she felt safer there than when dealing drugs during her teenage years.
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The 39-year-old remarked: “I was in a safe environment. I was healthy, eating salads every day, working out every day, no drugs every day.
“Was I sexualized? Absolutely. Did that cause me problems later in life? Absolutely. So, you know, choices — there are consequences for every choice you make.”
Wilkinson is now pursuing a career as a real estate agent in Los Angeles, a journey documented in her TV series Kendra Sells Hollywood, which concluded after two seasons.