I’ve become addicted to the Girls Next Door so I am sad to hear that Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kenra Wilkinson are apparently ending their relationships with Hugh Hefner. The future of the show may entail watching Hef pick the new girlfriends. I can’t see myself being interested in that or in the new girls. Holly, Bridget, and Kendra made the show what it was for me. In a sense, the fact that these relationships are changing shows that they are not the ‘dumb blondes’ some might want to think they are.
Being in a relationship with Hef is certainly not what we are used to. One must be open-minded about a lot of things to live in that household. Holly may have thought she was becoming very important to Hef when the girlfriends wascut down from seven. She said she felt a sense of validation when she finally was on the cover of Playboy, as all Hef’s previous serious girlfriends had been there. Still, she had a goal of getting married and having children, and did what some people are able to do, give up love for the hope of attaining those goals.
Bridget has been furthering her education during her tenure and finding job opportunity in her show on satellite radio and movie productions. Kendra has opened her world by being with Hef, seeing the world, attending all kinds of events. Kendra knew on some level it wasn’t going to last forever.
I’m sure it was a trade off to adhere to a curfew and not be able to travel anywhere at any time while in a relationship with someone who you wouldn’t get to spend a lot of personal time with. But they got to do a lot of travel and appearances, meet lots of people, have their food prepared for them, their laundry done for them, (presumably other expenses were taken care of too).
I envy the forethought that they each had to take advantage of the opportunity they had to be in a relationship with someone who could give them so much in terms of a world experience and the opportunity to further their goals. I also envy their ability to be able to walk away when things no longer suited their needs. Perhaps being wedded more to their goals was the key.
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