Growing Up Next Door To The Girls Next Door feat. Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt

<p>Fun fact: I grew up next door (like actually next door) to the Playboy Mansion. So, to me, the girls next door really were the Girls Next Door. </p> <p> </p> <p>It added another layer to my already <em>colorful </em>childhood, with parties and peacocks that kept me up for all hours of the night. </p> <p> </p> <p>Then, one incredible day in 2005 E! Released a brand new show called…THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR, and the lives of every millennial girl changed forever. If you lived under a rock and have never seen this show (stop what you’re doing and go watch immediately), The Girls Next Door was a reality show about The Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends Holly, Bridget and Kendra. These dynamic women quickly became the stars of the show, and captured the hearts of families and young women nationwide. The show gave us a look inside the wild lifestyle of three very different women with one common interest: their boyfriend. It showed their extravagant costumes, the parties they’d host, vacations and day trips all over the world, their butlers, lavish lifestyle, and many, many dogs. </p> <p> </p> <p>But, as with most things, their lives weren’t quite what they seemed. In addition to all the fun and playfulness the show captured, there was jealousy, manipulation, body issues, infighting, and a dark side to the boyfriend they were basically employed by. </p> <p> </p> <p>And damn, did we GO THERE… Holly and Bridget joined me on this week’s episode, and were so honest and real about the years they lived at the mansion, dated Hef, and starred in (in my opinion !!!) one of the best reality shows of all time. Not only did we reminisce on the years we spent as neighbors, but they let me in on the secrets of the mansion, Hef’s world, the parts they’d rather forget, and everrrrryyything in between. </p> <p> </p> <p>We explored Holly’s neurodivergence, some of the sexual aspects of the girls’ relationships with Hef, how they feel about his death, and how it impacts the way they think about him now. They tol