June 12

 Kendra Leigh Wllkinson's Birthday
 

There is an old joke that is a response to the question "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"  Answer: "Practice. Practice. Practice." An updated version of the joke could be "How do I get a reality show on E! Entertainment Network?" Answer: "Make a sex tape. Make a sex tape. Make a sex tape." It proved to be the answer for many in the E! star search stable, including Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and  Kendra Wilkinson.  Although to be fair to Kendra, her alleged sex tapes didn't surface until after she got her E! contract.

However, Kendra is allegedly a sex tape entrepreneur. According to RadarOnline, Kendra owns a company called Home Run Productions LLC, through which she made several attempts to sell sex tapes. The first of her personal sex tapes was with Justin Fry with whom she allegedly has a deal to split the profits on their tape .and  who allegedly is actually the cameraman for the  second tape one made with gal pal Taryn Ryan.

Most E!  Entertainment Network fans got their first delicious view on Kendra  on 2005 as a member of Hugh Heffner's ménage à trois  in E!'s The Girls Next Door, which followed the lives of Kendra, Holly Madison, and Bridget Marquardt  who cohabited the Playboy Mansion with the ancient mariner who apparently had his sail at half-mast most of the time. In an interview with Us Weekly, Kendra explained that she generally had to get sex outside on the mansion . According to Kendra "I had to have sex every now and then, so I had to kind of sneak it."

Kendra moved out of the Playboy Mansion in 2009 after meeting NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett whom she later married, and filmed her own spin-off popular reality show for E! called Kendra. Since the birth of her her son Hank, Jr.,  her popularity has begun to wane with some of her male fans. After his birth, she lost her 50 pounds of pregnancy weight and told InTouch weekly when she posed in her bikini. “My body is back, and I want to show it off.”

However, as hot the new mommy is, there will be continuing pressures for her to appear nude as she did in her early Playboy spreads and lose all the new bikinis that she bough after her weight loss.

In the August 13, 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that Kendra was Olive Garden's "Biggest Celebrity Fan" and that she described Olive Garden's cuisine as "my soul food."  However, we toast her birthday with a Lost Bikini Cocktail to celebrate her weight loss while we get a momentary glimpse of her in.Scary Movie 4 (2006).
 

Lost Bikini Cocktail

© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes