Being Kendra_ Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back - Kendra Wilkinson [56]
About two days before a big event—let’s say something like the ESPY Awards, which is the sporting world’s biggest night—I start preparing mentally and physically. It’s a big process. I have a stylist named Lindsay Albanese come over and help me get prepped. She knows my body and what I want. She knows that less is more on me when it comes to the dress, accessories, hair, makeup, shoes. I like it simple. I just want her to bring over something simple so we can look good and get it over with. I’m not a diva; I don’t call in dresses and looks from the world’s top designers, not that they sit around trying to send them to me anyway. If it looks hot on the hanger, I’ll give it a try. Now that I have my body back I can wear anything I want. My body is in different shape from the way it was before pregnancy. It’s in the best shape it’s ever been.
Before pregnancy, even though I was skinny, most regular clothes didn’t fit me. If I liked something I’d be like, “OMG, I love it,” but then it wouldn’t fit because I would be too curveless and couldn’t properly fill it out. I had a strange body—big boobs but then stick-thin legs and arms. A lot of things just didn’t hang well on me. But after pregnancy and now that I’ve gotten back in shape, I have more curves in the right places and everything looks good on me. When you’ve got a skinny body it’s a lot of work, a lot of hemming and things like that, to get it to fit in all the right places. But right now I’m exactly where I want to be, and it feels good.
Racks of clothes, my stylist, and toys—all in my home office. My life in a nutshell!
Shoes, clothes, jewelry . . . When will I wake up from this dream?
So Lindsay wheels her portable rack with fifty different dresses over to our place and then it’s up to me to go through them. I can usually pick out my top ten just by eyeing them all. Then I try all ten of those on and put a pair of nude heels on with them; I always have to wear nude heels when I try something on because they pretty much go with everything. After that we take pictures of our top choices and send them to my management team so they can okay the dress for professional reasons, so everyone is on the same page. It keeps things more organized in our lives and career; they know what dress I’m wearing in case magazines like Life & Style Weekly want to know who I’m wearing. Usually we’ll get down to one or two dresses that work best, and then I have to have like five okays from my people before I myself say okay to it. If it’s really hot I won’t wait for anyone else’s opinion, I’ll be like, “Fuck everyone, I’m wearing this.” Then it’s the same thing with the second dress. I usually try on about ten dresses before I pick one. I try them on, then narrow it down to my favorites. Then we go off votes in the room: Hank, baby Hank, my stylist Lindsay, Eddie, and whoever else.
The only one who I never disagree with is baby Hank. There was a black sparkly dress that I wore for the announcement of Dancing with the Stars, and baby Hank had chosen that dress. That was the first dress I tried on and I walked out and I was like, “Okay, how do I look?” and baby Hank fell over and smiled up at me. So I knew that was the dress. His eyes told me that was the dress, so we chose that one.
Hank Jr. loved this dress, which I wore to the cast reveal of Dancing with the Stars. I think he just liked the sparkles.
A dress fitting is usually two to three nights before the big event. That’s when I also start my crash diet. If I want to eat bad or snack heavily, it will be two days before the event, because the night before the event I really lay off the carbs and the salt. It’s kind of like fasting. I’ll eat protein and veggies,