Kendra Wilkinson Gets Candid About Hospitalizations and Trying to Change Her Image
October 2, 2024
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Kendra Wilkinson just opened up about her mental health struggles and the reasoning behind her concerning hospitalizations last year.
Wilkinson, 39, spoke to Page Six at the Thursday, September 26 DirecTV Gets Real event and confessed she “went through a really crazy identity crisis,” that was partially due to being “sexualized.” The Girls Next Door alum explained that when she started her new show,Kendra Sells Hollywood (which aired from 2021-2023), she wanted to be taken seriously as a realtor and shed her previous overtly sexual image.
“I didn’t wanna be sexualized anymore, and I wanted to just throw away that part of me that people once knew — like, you know, that wild, fun, crazy girl that I was on television,” the former Playboy model admitted. “I wanted just to unzip and throw that costume away and just become a realtor, and be a mom and a realtor.” The Kendra star was previously married to retired NFL star Hank Baskett. The pair divorced in 2018 and share two kids: a son, Hank Jr., 14, and a daughter, Alijah, 10.
Television personality Kendra Wilkinson attends the “DIRECTV Gets Real” event celebrating the Fall Season of Reality TV at The Aster on September 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Television personality Kendra Wilkinson attends the “DIRECTV Gets Real” event celebrating the Fall Season of Reality TV at The Aster on September 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
Wilkinson also shared that it was tough to make the shift into real estate because of the public’s perceptions of her. “They assumed that I passed my real estate exam for the sake of television,” the Kendra on Top alum noted. “So there’s a lot of assumptions. There was a lot of barriers I had to break down, and it took a toll on my mental health, she shared.
In September 2023, Wilkinson was hospitalized twice in the same week after “going through a downward spiral of thoughts” and dealing with “a manic state of anxiety.” The mom of two shared with the outlet, “I didn’t know how to breathe. I didn’t know how to function as a human being. There was a lot that I had to get through, and there was a lot of begging for mercy from God that I had to go through. It was a lot.”
Per Page Six, Wilkinson has two reality TV projects in the works now that her mental health is in a better state.
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