SPOTTED: Kendra Wilkinson Baskett and husband Hank Baskett at a book signing for Kendra’s new book, Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails and Getting My Sexy Back, at Barnes & Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles, CA September 23, 2011.
Kendra has gone from stripper, to Playboy playmate, to Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend to Hank Baskett’s wife and now to being the mother of a 21-month-old baby boy, Hank Baskett Jr. And all of her experiences, struggles and adventures have been caught on TV in either The Girls Next Door or Kendra.
But in the book, Kendra reveals even more private details about some monumental events in her life including her struggles with postpartum depression, raising a child even though she had never even held a baby before Hank Jr’s birth, her public tussle with post-baby weight loss, making time for sex while raising a baby and starring in a reality show, and her challenges with Dancing with the Stars partner, Louis Van Amstel.
Earlier this week, Wilkinson Tweeted the purpose of her book: “I feel that so many people can learn from and be inspired by my experiences.” She also said that she has “held NOTHING back.” She added, “I am living proof that you can overcome your past and become the person you have always wanted to be and that’s what Being Kendra is all about.”
About the reasons for the onset of her postpartum depression, which Wilkinson has called a black hole, she told Huffington Post: “After giving birth to my son, I had struggled with depression and there were a lot of the same feelings I had when I was a teenager…I’d never taken care of a baby, I’d never even held a baby or changed a diaper until my son, baby Hank,” she said.
Luckily, Kendra worked through her issues and she is a very happy mother these days. She’s found ways to relax with Hank: “We have our bed, we have our TV, and we have our massage table,” Wilkinson said. “Hank and I give each other massages almost every night. It’s really important to us.” As for her love life, she said, “As parents, now we have to try to fit in sex whenever we can,” she writes. “In a nutshell, that’s my new sex life as a mom … But I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.”
