'A Creeper's Paradise': Crystal Hefner Talks Playboy

The visible remnants of Crystal Hefner's days as a Playboy Playmate are mostly gone. The snowy blonde hair that once characterized Ms. Hefner, the third and final wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has become a dirtier blonde. Revealing suits have been swapped for more practical clothing like beige cardigans.
But a closer look reveals a woman still acclimatizing to the life outside the infamous Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, which she left about seven years ago, shortly after Mr. Hefner's death in 2017.
On a recent afternoon, Ms. Hefner leaned against a pink booth in an Italian restaurant. in Manhattan. She seemed thoughtful: It had been less than an hour since she first read an excerpt from her new memoir, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” to a group of strangers.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mrs. Hefner, 37, said she is still adjusting to life outside the mansion, where she has lived for nearly a decade and where she "has been rewarded for being small." She tried to shake off the conditioning she endured within its lavish walls. “Coming to power is a work in progress,” she said.
“Only Say Good Things,” which will be released on January 23, is step towards this goal. power. In the book, Ms. Hefner reexamines her initiation into the Playboy world; details the objectification and misogyny she said she experienced under Mr. Hefner; and exploits the trauma she is still processing.
"At the time," she said, "I had to go through a brainwashing or something."
Mrs. Hefner met Mr. Hefner at a 2008 Halloween party at the mansion. The estate offered a glimpse into how the 1 percent lived, she writes in the book, and she wanted to be a part of it. Then aged 21, she was one of many attendees revealing costumes as a French maid whom he invited into his room for group sex as the party drew to a close.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">She soon learned visits to the mansion often involved a “trip to the bedroom at the end of the night,” she wrote in her memoir. At the time, she thought it was worth it.
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'A Creeper's Paradise': Crystal Hefner Talks Playboy

The visible remnants of Crystal Hefner's days as a Playboy Playmate are mostly gone. The snowy blonde hair that once characterized Ms. Hefner, the third and final wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has become a dirtier blonde. Revealing suits have been swapped for more practical clothing like beige cardigans.

But a closer look reveals a woman still acclimatizing to the life outside the infamous Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, which she left about seven years ago, shortly after Mr. Hefner's death in 2017.

On a recent afternoon, Ms. Hefner leaned against a pink booth in an Italian restaurant. in Manhattan. She seemed thoughtful: It had been less than an hour since she first read an excerpt from her new memoir, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” to a group of strangers.

< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mrs. Hefner, 37, said she is still adjusting to life outside the mansion, where she has lived for nearly a decade and where she "has been rewarded for being small." She tried to shake off the conditioning she endured within its lavish walls. “Coming to power is a work in progress,” she said.

“Only Say Good Things,” which will be released on January 23, is step towards this goal. power. In the book, Ms. Hefner reexamines her initiation into the Playboy world; details the objectification and misogyny she said she experienced under Mr. Hefner; and exploits the trauma she is still processing.

"At the time," she said, "I had to go through a brainwashing or something."

Mrs. Hefner met Mr. Hefner at a 2008 Halloween party at the mansion. The estate offered a glimpse into how the 1 percent lived, she writes in the book, and she wanted to be a part of it. Then aged 21, she was one of many attendees revealing costumes as a French maid whom he invited into his room for group sex as the party drew to a close.

< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">She soon learned visits to the mansion often involved a “trip to the bedroom at the end of the night,” she wrote in her memoir. At the time, she thought it was worth it.

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