Kendra
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).
-How did you end up in the Playboy Mansion in the first place?
I ended up there because Hef (Hugh Hefner) saw a picture of me, I was eighteen years old at the time, he saw a picture of me that someone sent in, I didn’t send it in I didn’t even know that it was going to Playboy it was just a picture that I took for myself, he saw it and asked me to move in a be his girlfriend and I was like ’ok’.
-And how did you find life there?
Life at the Playboy Mansion was great it was really great it was paradise. I got everything that I wanted twenty four seven it was like living in a dream castle where I was just spoiled twenty four seven, and living with Hugh, Holly and Bridget just made it even better.
-What were you relationships like with the other girls and with Hugh Hefner himself?
The relationship was great, of course we lived together for five years with two other girls so of course at times there are going to be bitchiness and stuff, other than that we all respected each other and let each other just live because we were all different people. The relationship was great because we didn’t force too much on each other to hang out all the time we just hung out when we wanted too.
-You became a star through TV series The Girls Next Door so how do you find the whole fame thing?
It’s hard for me to call myself famous I love travelling around the world and meeting my fans that’s the best thing about it, going around the world and meeting people. I have to pinch myself it’s like I’m living in a dream or something sure sometimes it gets annoying that my privacy has gone but other than that I love it, I love my fans. Sometimes it gets overwhelming and I get frustrated.
-Finally what’s next for you and what career do you see for yourself?
Well I’m getting married and Hank and I are traditional people so we really want to just raise a family if that keeps happening with my life then it does I’m not going to sit here and be desperate to be in a movie or be a star. If Hollywood still wants me around then I’ll be here if it doesn’t then I’m happy to be a housewife to Hank (laughs).
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Kendra from Sunday 14th June at 10pm on E! Entertainment Television (Sky 151 / Virgin Media 156)
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).
-How did you end up in the Playboy Mansion in the first place?
I ended up there because Hef (Hugh Hefner) saw a picture of me, I was eighteen years old at the time, he saw a picture of me that someone sent in, I didn’t send it in I didn’t even know that it was going to Playboy it was just a picture that I took for myself, he saw it and asked me to move in a be his girlfriend and I was like ’ok’.
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