Kendra Wilkinson: From Playboy’s The Girls Next Door to NFL Bride
By Allison Kugel, Senior Editor PR.COM – May 28, 2009

I recently sat down with E! personality and former Playboy Mansion resident, Kendra Wilkinson, to discuss her much publicized transition from one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends to independent woman, and soon to be NFL wife of Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, Hank Baskett. With this personal evolution comes an equally dramatic professional leap from one of three blonde beauties on the smash hit series The Girls Next Door to her own reality show, Kendra, also on E!.

It’s no secret that good celebrity interviews require a healthy amount of chemistry and an instant camaraderie between both parties, and my conversation with Kendra proved to be one of the easiest of my career. From a love of the same television shows and a shared tomboy sensibility, to a disdain for shopping, Kendra and I had a lot in common. It certainly made for an easy flowing conversation with a girl who is as down to earth as they come, particularly for a twenty-three year old with her own television series who is currently decompressing from a life at the Playboy Mansion complete with round-the-clock butler service.

The oldest child of a single mother and an absentee father, Kendra Wilkinson’s life wasn’t always a fairytale. In fact, some of the extreme ups and downs of her adolescence and early twenties have given her a much wider perspective and a deeper insight than her physical appearance and perceived lifestyle would suggest, and I tell her so.