Holly Madison has shared insights into why a particular aspect of her relationship with Hugh Hefner wasn’t as unsettling as many might anticipate.
Madison and Hefner were an item from 2001 to 2008, with Madison famously appearing as his ‘main girlfriend’ on the reality series The Girls Next Door.
Following Hefner’s death at the age of 91 in 2017, numerous Playmates have come forward with accounts from their time in the iconic mansion.
Madison has been candid about the challenges of living in the ‘fast lane’ and the reasons the mansion seemed like a ‘cult’.
In addition to discussing the ‘disgusting’ aspects of her relationship with Hefner, including a particular act she ‘hated’ engaging in with him, she’s also addressed a prevailing negative stereotype concerning Hefner, particularly relating to his age.
During an appearance on the In Your Dreams Podcast with Owen Thiele, Madison spoke about her intimate experiences with Hefner.
Despite a significant 50-year age difference, she described their sexual encounters as surprisingly ‘normal’.
She also confronted certain negative perceptions she has faced due to being intimate with an older man.
Madison explained: “I think everybody has this real horror story of how gross an old man’s body must be.
“I feel like there was a time when I couldn’t post anything without some dumba** in the comments like, ‘Oh, old balls’, or something like that and look, maybe some people’s balls do get old and nasty, but I’ve never seen such a thing.”
Ultimately, when it was just Madison and Hefner alone, she remarked their sex life ‘was a lot more normal than you would think’. There was one aspect, however, that she found ‘disgusting’.
With Hefner having several other girlfriends at the time, including Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, Madison discussed her disdain for when ‘everybody else’ was present ‘in the room’ with her and Hefner.
“Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it,” she stated.
However, when it was just the two of them, Madison mentioned it was ‘a very different story’.
Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped her from describing their sexual encounters as ‘gross’ and a ‘chore’, previously stating that everyone ultimately wanted to ‘make it go by as quickly as possible’.