Kendra Wilkinson Revealed She Was "Absolutely" Sexualized As A Teen At The Playboy Mansion And Seemingly Developed A "Sex Problem" As A Result

If you didn't know, this is Kendra Wilkinson.

She gained popularity from the E! reality TV show The Girls Next Door, documenting her life in the Playboy mansion as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends alongside Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt.

Kendra's TV personality career continued with her reality shows, Kendra and Kendra on Top and eventually, Kendra Sells Hollywood after she became a real estate agent.

On the I Do, Part 2 podcast, Kendra talked about dealing with a new chapter of her life, reflecting on her past when she moved into Hugh's Playboy mansion and started her reality TV career when she was only 18 years old.

"I was a horrible teenager," Kendra said. "I was a runaway. I sold cocaine at the age of 15. I never really had a stable life."

"And so I went looking for the wrong things. 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," she continued.

Living in the Playboy mansion did bring Kendra some comfort. "I can honestly look back and say that I was safer at the Playboy mansion than I was at 15 years old dealing drugs," she said. "So in that case, I was safe. I was in a safe environment. I was healthy, eating salads every day, working out every day, no drugs every day."

However, Kendra said the Playboy culture had lasting effects. "Was I sexualized? Absolutely," she said. "Did that cause me problems later in life? Absolutely. So, you know, choices — there are consequences for every choice you make."

"I struggle still to this day with my relationships and my views on sex," Kendra explained. And 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, like, a little bit of a sex problem. Like, you have a little bit of a problem when it comes to thinking of sex.'"

Elaborating on her "sex problem," Kendra said that it involves "unhealthy thoughts" that are "not really settling for a marriage and stuff like that."

In 2009, Kendra moved out of the Playboy mansion and married former NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett. They divorced in 2018 and share two children.

"I left the Playboy mansion at age 23, got pregnant, got married at the age of 23, then started my life as a wife and a mother," she added. "And it was the golden years of my life. And, you know, I went from the Playboy mansion, all of a sudden, to like this marriage life in a blink of an eye. And it was the right timing, you know. I found myself just, you know, so bored at the Playboy mansion. I was just like, 'I'm ready to leave this place. I'm ready to start a family.'"

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Reflecting on which experience, reality TV or Playboy, had the most negative impact on her life, Kendra said it was reality TV. "A lot of people focus a lot on like, 'Oh, you did Playboy, Playboy, Playboy,' but no one really focuses on what it took to actually shoot a reality TV show and what it does."

"It took every ounce of my soul. Like, that's why they call it, 'Sell the soul [to] the devil.' I sold my soul to the goddamn devil," she continued. "I have a lot of regrets when it comes to that. I don't have regrets with Playboy and all that, but I have regrets on where things went with show business."

Listen to the full podcast episode here.