Every Former Playmate Who’s Spoken Out Against Hugh Hefner

The reality behind the fantasy. The Playboy Mansion is the stuff of popular culture legend, however former Playmates have been brutally trustworthy about what life was actually like there — and the way the late Hugh Hefner handled them.

Holly Madison was by no means technically a Playmate, however she did reside with Hefner, who died in September 2017 at age 91, on the California property from 2001 to 2008. She starred within the collection The Women Subsequent Door with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt, who collectively made up the founder’s trio of girlfriends.

After the Holly’s World alum left the mansion, nonetheless, she wasn’t afraid to talk out about what she actually skilled in Hef’s orbit. In 2015, she authored Down the Rabbit Gap: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, which included tons of particulars about her time with the notorious writer.

“I discovered Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us in opposition to each other,” she wrote of her relationship with different girls in the home. “I noticed I wasn’t handled effectively.”

In 2021, she spoke extra about her reminiscences throughout an interview for the A&E docuseries Secrets and techniques of Playboy. “I didn’t notice that entering into the Playboy world was a harmful alternative,” the Oregon native stated in a promo for the present.

She beforehand revealed that she’d struggled with physique dysmorphia whereas courting Hefner and dealing for Playboy. “[I] thought I had gained weight, and thought I hadn’t caught to my food plan, and I believed my thighs have been enormous and I believed, ‘I must lose 5 kilos a minimum of,’” she stated in a TikTok video, recalling how she used to look at outdated footage of herself. “And that’s ridiculous. I appear like a stick.”

The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Cube and the Highway to Reinvention writer additionally in contrast life on the mansion to life in a “cult,” with Hefner because the chief.

“It’s a really cult-like environment anyway and also you’re manipulated to really feel that means, however on high of it, my very own disgrace saved me there too. I simply couldn’t actually think about a life exterior of there,” she stated throughout an April 2021 episode of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast. “Think about having intercourse with anyone in a room full of ladies who all hate you and you recognize they’re all speaking s—t about you. Like, how horrible? It was gross.”

Preserve scrolling for a glance again at all the former Playmates and Playboy fashions who’ve spoken out in opposition to Hefner: