For 4 years, former Playboy playmates – and twins – Karissa and Kristina Shannon have been thought to have been residing a lifetime of luxurious and glamour contained in the Playboy mansion with boyfriend Hugh Hefner. However behind closed doorways, the Florida natives have been combating to outlive an online of trauma-filled experiences ignited by jealousy and betrayal.
Coming from “humble beginnings,” the twins, now 35, have been first found once they have been simply 16 years outdated. Two years later, they moved into the mansion with Hefner and his already-established girlfriends and “The Girls Next Door” stars Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson.
“We were only 18, it was our 19th birthday when we actually hooked up with Hef,” Kristina informed Fox Information Digital in an unique interview.
“We were teenagers,” Karissa added.
“So, it was like we felt out of our comfort zone. We didn’t have fake boobs, we didn’t have fake teeth, we didn’t have the fake hair,” Kristina continued. “We were all-natural, and we were just trying to make it, and finding out we were going to be Playmates was the biggest deal to us. And then finding out we could be on the TV show was even bigger.”
Upon coming into the mansion, the ladies immediately felt “very bullied” by the opposite girls.
“These girls are so mean, and we didn’t know what to do,” Kristina stated.
The luxurious life they as soon as fantasized about shortly turned a nightmare when an STD outbreak obtained handed round.
“Hugh Hefner did not use condoms,” Kristina claimed. “Once everybody caught chlamydia, we’re like, ‘No, we’re only 18. We were 18, and we caught chlamydia.”
“We were yelling and screaming, crying. We were so mad,” Karissa added.
“And they’re such a hippie mentality. . . . They’re like, ‘Oh, it’s normal sexual activity.’ They said, ‘When you’re sexually active, that’s what happens.’ We’re like, no, we were 18, 19. And we’re thinking in our heads, ‘You guys are nuts.’ Just because you’re sexually active does not meet with that, you’re catching STDs, then we’re not okay with it.”
“From what Hef says, when we all caught chlamydia, is that when you’re sexually active, that’s what happens,” stated Kristina. “That’s what he said. So you cannot go by what he says. You cannot trust him. So you have to watch out for yourself.”
Kristina claimed that Hefner would have intercourse with “anything walking.”
“Hef, he would positively one hundred percent have intercourse with something strolling, something strolling. If he discovered it considerably handsome, he would positively hook up. . . . So, it was similar to we needed to cope with it.
“It was very embarrassing,” Karissa added.
Because of the lack of safety, Karissa discovered herself pregnant at 20 years outdated.
“I didn’t want Hef to know, because the first thing I thought of, he was going to want to keep it,” Karissa stated. “I didn’t want [anyone] else to know, because I felt like I didn’t want to be pregnant by him. I didn’t want to have to deal with it.”
Karissa ended up getting an abortion, a “big and emotional” determination, she stated.
“Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia was the only 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 “Girls Next Door.”
“My stomach was so swollen,” Karissa recalled. “I was not in any way ready to talk about it. And I was so scared that Hef would find out that he wanted it. And I didn’t know what was, I didn’t know what to do … I was scared. I just didn’t want anyone to know. And I was embarrassed and I felt disgusting.”
“I was so confused and dealing with so much stuff, it really trauma bonded me to my sister, and that’s why we went through what we went through, and I’m just so happy that I’ve come out of it,” she added.
By the point they have been 22 years outdated, the ladies had had sufficient and have been prepared to depart Hefner and the mansion.
“When we moved out, we had a couple of years where we went through this individuality phase,” Karissa not too long ago informed Individuals journal. “I feel like every set of twins goes through it, particularly in your early 20s. We were both into different things and trying to be individuals, because Hef really did force the twin thing on us, more than anyone else had ever. But we’ve always been extremely close. I believe we’re twin flames, closer than most twins.”
“Everyone was saying we were going through our ‘Anna Nicole phase,’” Kristina informed the outlet. “We gained weight. There was alcohol and pills. We were really unhealthy and lost and, even at points, suicidal. We had no one. It was just us trying to figure it out after losing ourselves.”
The twins informed Fox Information Digital that Hefner had actually stripped them of their identities in lots of methods.
“It was very scary for us. It really was, because we lost who we were,” Kristina stated.
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 every day together, and we’re into meal-prepping and not eating out, really self-care and just taking time for ourselves and learning how to be selfish, learning how to say no,” Karissa stated.
“We went in our hearts, we went through our healing era, which took years. I didn’t think we would ever come out of it. But Michigan changed us. We love being in Michigan and then going to L.A. or Vegas for work,” Kristina added.
So far as their subsequent skilled transfer, the twins are on the lookout for a inventive outlet, whether or not or not it’s a chat present or a podcast.
“Something honest and real,” stated Kristina. “We won’t hold back.”
