Kendra's Life After Playboy

01 June 2009

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Kendra shot to fame in television show in The Girls of the Playboy Mansion as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends.

But her new show Kendra sees her leave behind the safe haven of the Playboy Mansion and strike out on her own.

I caught up with Kendra to talk about letting the cameras into her life once again what life has been like since leaving her old life behind.

-So your new show Kendra is about to hit our screens so can you tell me a little bit about it?

My show called Kendra is a spin off from The Girls of the Playboy Mansion and it’s basically going from being a spoilt little girl to a not having any butlers, no maids, no mom.

 I’m basically blossoming into a woman and trying to survive on may own as well as growing into a housewife, well not a housewife my fiancé’s wife. Everyone knows me as a tomboy, crazy girl from the Playboy mansion who parties a lot and drinks a lot and it’s a big change in my life and I don’t really have the time to do that stuff anymore it’s time to get down and pay my bills and do the real stuff.

It was a struggle at first but you see me improve throughout the story of the show. And it was just a lot of fun it’s all real and it’s the process leading up the wedding too.

-And why did you decide to let the TV cameras into your life?

I decided because I’m so use to them, I’ve been in Girls of the Playboy mansion for five seasons now, and so I’m used to the cameras. At first I was very iffy about having a show I really didn’t care about being on a show, they came to us, and we were like ‘No we don’t really want to be on a show’. 

But then we said yes and we ended up loving shooting because of the people behind the scenes and I’m so used to the cameras now it’s like a home-video that I get to keep forever. It’s a fun story and I get to have it for the rest of my life I can show my kids, yes it is squeezed into thirty minutes, but it’s the biggest step in my life and career.

-How did you find the filming process with the cameras shoved in your face 24/7? Where there any points when you just wanted to say right enough?

For a thirty minute show the cameras are looking for some good shots and a lot is taken out because it’s my real life, and real life is sometimes boring.  They are looking for those moments that they can put on a show there is a lot more than thirty minutes to my life but it’s all fun.

-The show sees you leave behind the Playboy Mansion so how did you find leaving it all behind?

I felt very very scared at first I was very nervous and scared about leaving but at the same time, in my heart, I knew that it was the right time. For a time, around that period, I was getting really ancy and I just felt that it was time for me to find my way and leave and find my own way, I can’t have people doing things for me in my life it was time for me to become a woman you know? So yeah I took that step and that’s life change is life, even if it’s the wrong choice you have got to suck it up.

-And how are you finding life away from all of that?

I’m finding life a lot more difficult because I have got to do things on my own now but at the same time it a lot of fun. I don’t like life when it’s too easy I have been having a lot of fun and making mistakes and I can laugh at myself when I make these mistakes, everybody makes mistakes, it’s just that the cameras were there to shoot them (laughs).

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