Beauty Kendra Wilkinson Is A Model PicturesKendra Leigh Wilkinson (born June 12, 1985) is an American television personality and glamour model. She is well known for her role on the E! reality-television show The Girls Next Door, on which her life as one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends was documented. Her own reality series Kendra debuted in June 2009 to high ratings. Kendra Wilkinson was born in San Diego, California and is of English descent. She is the elder of two children; her younger brother is Colin. Her mother, Patti, was originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and had been a cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. Her father, Eric, left her family when she was four. Her grandmother is named Mary Stotz. Wilkinson grew up in Clairemont, a middle-class community in central San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School, from which she graduated in 2003. She played softball for six years with the Clairemont Bobby Sox.
Wilkinson met Hugh Hefner at his 78th birthday party in April 2004, where she was hired to be one of the "painted girls" (women who are nude except for painted-on accessories). Hefner had apparently seen her picture, shot by photographer Kim Riley, on a fax machine at the Playboy Mansion and wanted to know who she was. Shortly after they met, Hefner asked Wilkinson to be one of his girlfriends and he moved her into the Playboy Mansion along with her dogs Raskal and Martini. She was featured on the E! reality television series The Girls Next Door, which followed the lives of Hefner's then girlfriends, which, as well as Wilkinson, included Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. She moved out of the Playboy Mansion in 2009 and has filmed her own spin-off reality show for E! called Kendra. It will follow her in her new life living alone, planning her wedding, etc.
Wilkinson met Hugh Hefner at his 78th birthday party in April 2004, where she was hired to be one of the "painted girls" (women who are nude except for painted-on accessories). Hefner had apparently seen her picture, shot by photographer Kim Riley, on a fax machine at the Playboy Mansion and wanted to know who she was. Shortly after they met, Hefner asked Wilkinson to be one of his girlfriends and he moved her into the Playboy Mansion along with her dogs Raskal and Martini. She was featured on the E! reality television series The Girls Next Door, which followed the lives of Hefner's then girlfriends, which, as well as Wilkinson, included Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. She moved out of the Playboy Mansion in 2009 and has filmed her own spin-off reality show for E! called Kendra. It will follow her in her new life living alone, planning her wedding, etc.
