Holly Madison is reflecting on her expertise of partaking in “express” photograph shoots when she lived at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion.
Madison, who moved into the mansion when she was 21, made a reputation for herself because the “primary girlfriend” of Hefner, then 75.
Hefner infamously engaged in sexual relationships with the younger ladies on the mansion, a lot of which have been scrutinized lately.
Throughout her time on the mansion, Madison and her fellow ex-Playmates Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson starred in E! actuality collection The Women Subsequent Door, which documented their experiences with Hefner.
Final 12 months, Madison and Marquardt started reflecting on the decade-old present on their wide-ranging podcast, Women Subsequent Degree.
The duo have gotten candid about a lot of their experiences with Hefner, even defending their selection to remain off contraception whereas they — and a number of other different Playmates — have been sleeping with him.
“I simply don’t assume any of us ever thought for a second that we have been in peril of getting pregnant by him,” Madison shared in an episode earlier this month, earlier than including that Hefner “knew what he was doing.”
On this week’s episode, Madison and Marquardt opened up about partaking in Playboy photograph shoots, a few of which have been “express.”
Talking about having these revealing photographs taken, Madison divulged that these shoots usually felt lighthearted and “humorous.”
“Once we have been capturing them within the second, [those photos] at all times felt type of humorous to me and never horny,” she stated. “Like, we have been taking part in at being horny.”
Madison then revealed that it took her years to grasp that the images have been seen as “pornographic” by different individuals.
“It wouldn’t be ’til years later when [I’d] look again on the image… like, that appears fairly pornographic,” she stated.
“Don’t get me fallacious, I’m not embarrassed about any of these photographs which might be on the market,” she stated, including that “the context” of the photograph shoots made a distinction.
Madison and Marquardt went on to explain their view of Playboy as a type of “magnificence pageant” slightly than one thing sexual.
“I really feel like me desirous to be in Playboy was nearly extra of a magnificence kind factor… slightly than ‘I wanna be horny,’” Madison stated.
“And I feel different individuals type of interpreted it that means. Like, they assume in case you’re moving into Playboy, you’re promoting that you simply’re accessible and also you’re so sexual,” she stated, including that this wasn’t the case for many of the ladies at Playboy.
“I feel most girls are like, ‘I wanna look actually fairly,’” she shared.
Marqaurdt added, “For me it’s like hitting a magnificence customary. It’s like profitable a magnificence pageant or one thing like that,” to which Madison agreed.
“I’m not dumb, I do know persons are taking a look at it for arousal functions, however I don’t know,” Madison stated. “I feel there’s some individuals on the market that actually get the fallacious concept and assume that you’re placing your self on the market as anyone who’ll fuck anyone.”
Marquardt echoed Madison’s sentiment, noting that some individuals believed they deserved that “type of consideration” after posing for Playboy.
