Kendra Wilkinson: I Was a 'Very Good Person' While Stripping

Eunice Oh at People reports:

Before settling down as a wife and mom, Kendra Wilkinson admits there were moments in her past that she's not exactly proud of – but they never defined who she was.

"I kind of lost myself for a little bit," the reality star, 25, said on Tuesday's Today show, while discussing her new book Sliding into Home and how she once experimented with drugs as a teen and also became a stripper.

"I wasn't a druggie stripper. I was a very good person doing it. [But] I was kind of still embarrassed about it," she clarifies.


"I always knew that it was wrong. [But] the drugs and everything, that's what found me and accepted me," she says, explaining that her behavior came from a painful place when she had to cope with her father leaving the family.

After trying drugs, Wilkinson realized she was "that tomboy, I'm that kid that loves sports. That wasn't me."

Deciding to get back her life wasn't a swift decision. "It took a while," she admits. "A good couple of weeks to think about, okay, the time is coming. I don't know when yet. [But] this isn't me."

A few years later – and her Playboy Mansion days and sex tape scandal behind her – Wilkinson now says she finally feels "safe."

"I've been through a lot. I've gotten through it," she says. "I'm home, where I've always wanted to be."

I am always skeptical of I am a good person defense. Yet, I feel Kendra does surround her 'good person' defense in the reality of drugs, emotional distress, and abuse.

I think 99% of sexy job workers would rather be doing something else. Yet drugs, emotional distress, and abuse make the the fast money of sexy jobs seem very appealing.

Kendra Wilkinson Starting Her Own Line of Stripper Poles

"I'm coming out with my own stripper pole. Stripper pole, and stripper pole workout," The Girls Next Door star, 23, told Usmagazine.com at the American Red Cross Red Tie Affair in Santa Monica Saturday.

I am all for exercise, but I think the stripper workouts, sexy workouts, and ect. are getting out of hand. Not everyone needs to workout on the pole, just like not everyone needs to be training for a marathon.

I think the goal is to get good heart health and not be extreme in the exercises that you do.

I know many 200 lb woman will be injured if they start doing spins on the pole in the living room, just like they would be injured if they did a couch to the NYC marathon training regime.