Former Playboy twins expose darkish actuality behind mansion’s glamorous facade: ‘We had been youngsters’

For 4 years, former Playboy playmates – and twins – Karissa and Kristina Shannon had been thought to have been dwelling a lifetime of luxurious and glamour contained in the Playboy mansion with boyfriend Hugh Hefner. However behind closed doorways, the Florida natives had been preventing to outlive an online of trauma-filled experiences ignited by jealousy and betrayal. 

Coming from “humble beginnings,” the twins, now 35, had been first found once they had been simply 16 years outdated. Two years later, they moved into the mansion with Hefner and his already-established girlfriends and “The Ladies Subsequent Door” stars Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. 

“We had been solely 18, it was our nineteenth birthday once we truly attached with Hef,” Kristina instructed Fox Information Digital in an unique interview. 

“We had been youngsters,” Karissa added. 

“So, it was like we felt out of our consolation zone. We didn’t have faux boobs, we didn’t have faux enamel, we didn’t have the faux hair,” Kristina continued. “We had been all-natural, and we had been simply attempting to make it, and discovering out we had been going to be Playmates was the most important deal to us. After which discovering out we may very well be on the TV present was even greater.”

Upon getting into the mansion, the ladies immediately felt “very bullied” by the opposite ladies.  

“These ladies are so imply, and we didn’t know what to do,” Kristina mentioned. 

The luxurious life they as soon as fantasized about rapidly grew to become a nightmare when an STD outbreak obtained handed round. 

“Hugh Hefner didn’t use condoms,” Kristina claimed. “As soon as everyone caught chlamydia, we’re like, ‘No, we’re solely 18. We had been 18, and we caught chlamydia.”

“We had been yelling and screaming, crying. We had been so mad,”  Karissa added. 

“They usually’re such a hippie mentality. . . . They’re like, ‘Oh, it’s regular sexual exercise.’ They mentioned, ‘Whenever you’re sexually lively, that’s what occurs.’ We’re like, no, we had been 18, 19. And we’re considering in our heads, ‘You guys are nuts.’ Simply since you’re sexually lively doesn’t meet with that, you’re catching STDs, then we’re not okay with it.”

“From what Hef says, once we all caught chlamydia, is that if you’re sexually lively, that’s what occurs,” mentioned Kristina. “That’s what he mentioned. So you can not go by what he says. You can not belief him. So you need to be careful for your self.”

Kristina claimed that Hefner would have intercourse with “something strolling.”

“Hef, he would undoubtedly one hundred percent have intercourse with something strolling, something strolling. If he discovered it considerably handsome, he would undoubtedly hook up. . . . So, it was similar to we needed to cope with it.

“It was very embarrassing,” Karissa added. 

As a result of lack of safety, Karissa discovered herself pregnant at 20 years outdated. 

“I didn’t need Hef to know, as a result of the very first thing I considered, he was going to need to hold it,” Karissa mentioned. “I didn’t need [anyone] else to know, as a result of I felt like I didn’t need to be pregnant by him. I didn’t need to need to cope with it.”

Karissa ended up getting an abortion, a “massive and emotional” resolution, she mentioned.

“Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia was the one good friend we had, and his dad was a pastor,” Karissa recalled. 

“He took us to get her abortion,” Kristina added. 

After the process, the ladies needed to movie promos for “Ladies Subsequent Door.” 

“My abdomen was so swollen,” Karissa recalled. “I used to be not in any approach prepared to speak about it. And I used to be so scared that Hef would discover out that he needed it. And I didn’t know what was, I didn’t know what to do … I used to be scared. I simply didn’t need anybody to know. And I used to be embarrassed and I felt disgusting.”

“I used to be so confused and coping with a lot stuff, it actually trauma bonded me to my sister, and that’s why we went by what we went by, and I’m simply so joyful that I’ve come out of it,” she added. 

By the point they had been 22 years outdated, the ladies had had sufficient and had been prepared to depart Hefner and the mansion.  

“Once we moved out, we had a few years the place we went by this individuality part,” Karissa lately instructed Folks journal. “I really feel like each set of twins goes by it, notably in your early 20s. We had been each into various things and attempting to be people, as a result of Hef actually did drive the dual factor on us, greater than anybody else had ever. However we’ve all the time been extraordinarily shut. I imagine we’re twin flames, nearer than most twins.”

“Everybody was saying we had been going by our ‘Anna Nicole part,’” Kristina instructed the outlet. “We gained weight. There was alcohol and tablets. We had been actually unhealthy and misplaced and, even at factors, suicidal. We had nobody. It was simply us attempting to determine it out after shedding ourselves.”

The twins instructed Fox Information Digital that Hefner had actually stripped them of their identities in a whole lot of methods. 

“It was very scary for us. It actually was, as a result of we misplaced who we had been,” Kristina mentioned. 

Now, the ladies, who now stay in Michigan, are targeted on the long run and taking good care of their psychological, religious and bodily well being. 

“We meditate day-after-day collectively, and we’re into meal-prepping and never consuming out, actually self-care and simply taking time for ourselves and studying learn how to be egocentric, studying learn how to say no,” Karissa mentioned.

“We went in our hearts, we went by our therapeutic period, which took years. I didn’t suppose we might ever come out of it. However Michigan modified us. We love being in Michigan after which going to L.A. or Vegas for work,” Kristina added. 

So far as their subsequent skilled transfer, the twins are searching for a artistic outlet, whether or not it’s a chat present or a podcast. 

“One thing sincere and actual,” mentioned Kristina. “We received’t maintain again.”