Former Playboy model, Kendra Wilkinson, claims she has been celibate since her divorce in 2018 from ex-husband Hank Baskett.
Now, the 38-year old says she is finally ready to put herself back out there again and wants to have fun after 6 years.
“I felt so much shame over my status as a ‘sex symbol’ and that led me to refrain from sleeping with any men after my divorce,” said Wilkinson.
“It’s been so long since I’ve had sex. Will I remember how to do it,” Wilkinson laughed jokingly. “Seriously though, because I shamed myself on my sexuality, it led to my decision to not be intimate with anyone.”
Wilkinson continued, “Everyone sees me as a sex icon, so I shamed myself and I stayed away from anything sex. I almost became celibate.”
Despite not seeing marriage in her near future, Wilkinson did admit that she wants to put herself back out on the market.
“I can’t go back in time and rewire history, but I’m here to move forward in my life and upward,” she added. “And live a good life. That’s what I’m here for.”
Wilkinson also claims she is currently focused on maintaining a solid co-parenting relationship with her ex-husband Baskett; with whom she shares Hank Jr., 14, and Alijah Mary, 9.
“Right now, I’m focused on my kids, the love that they’re receiving from me and life, raising them, and self-love,” she explained.
The former married couple, tied the knot in 2009at the Playboy Mansion and their relationship was spotlighted on her reality show ‘Kendra On Top’ from 2012 to 2017.
The eventually parted ways in 2018 after allegations were made that Baskett had cheated on Wilkinson.
Despite the hurt and the divorce, Wilkinson took the high road and said she didn’t hold any grudges against Baskett for what he did.
“I am a lover. So if I love you, even as a human being, you don’t owe me anything, but I will love you through your problem,” she said. “I know myself, I can forgive. And I want to see Hank do well in life. He’s working so hard and he’s putting so much effort into his business and being a great dad.”
“What he did in my marriage doesn’t define him to me today. That’s not who he is to me today. Today I see him as an amazing co-parent, I see him as an amazing father. And I’m so blessed, so beyond blessed, to have him as a co-parent,” Wilkinson added.
Wilkinson, who has moved away from the reality tv realm and is now a realtor, also addressed the mental health crisis she suffered last year.
“I was dying of depression. I was hitting the end of my life, and I went into psychosis,” she recalled. “I felt like I wasn’t strong enough to live anymore.”
Wilkinson went on to explain that her depression had left her hospitalized twice last year and that she ended up taking herself to the emergency room in September 2023 after suffering a panic attack.
“It was the lowest place I’ve ever been in my life. I felt like I had no future. I couldn’t see in front of my depression,” she said, noting she is now doing her part “to learn to work with it and accept it.”
