Kendra Leigh Wilkinson appears as one of the contestants in the MTV reality television competition series Celebrity Rap Superstar. Her rapper mentor on the show is
Too $hort . She is an American model and TV personality who was born on June 12, 1985 in San Diego, California as the older of two children. She grew up in the middle-class community of Clairemont, finishing her secondary education at Clairemont High School in 2003, while playing softball for more than half a decade with the Clairemont Bobby Sox. Her initial claim to fame was becoming associated with Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, first meeting him at his 78th birthday party where she had been hired to be a painted girl, completely naked except for body paint designs.
Hefner soon asked Wilkinson to be one of his live-in girlfriends, and she complied and moved into the
Playboy Mansion. Aside from her relationship with the tycoon, she has stated that her planned career goal in life is to pursue work as either a sports announcer or a massage therapist. She has worked as a blogger columnist for the website of the Philadelphia Eagles, for whom her mother had worked as a cheerleader. She has also appeared on various television series such as
Curb Your Enthusiasm and HBO’s
Entourage .
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