Being Kendra_ Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back - Kendra Wilkinson [58]
It’s annoying keeping track of events and things outside of my home life because I’m not one to keep a calendar very well. I do it all in my head. Sometimes I know that an event will take place a month earlier but usually I just get a message from someone on my team about a week or two before saying, “Next week you have a premiere.” It’s really rare if someone tells me about something two months in advance. Unless you are up for an award or something, which, being a reality star, really doesn’t happen all too often. Everything else is about two or three weeks in advance. Things change so fast from day to day in Hollywood that you don’t know what you can RSVP to, what you “should” go to, what you “have” to go to. You don’t plan a month in advance. Most of the time I plan a week in advance and Eddie and my publicist, Kira Costello, are usually the people who call me and tell me that things are happening. Eddie arranges the stylist and hair and makeup. My job is just to show up.
I do all this stuff just for fun. It’s not really a big deal for me. I go out there and try to take good pictures and then go home. I’m not into the extreme of getting ready for an event. You’ll never find me getting a colonic or an enema to prepare for an event. I’d rather be constipated, bloated, or two pounds overweight than go to extremes.
The most extreme I ever got is piercing my own ears. My ears close up all the time because I never wear earrings, proof that I just don’t like jewelry. The last time I wore earrings was my wedding day. I actually pierced my own ears because I had borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry and figured if ever there was a time to wear earrings it was then. So I took the earrings themselves and just started piercing through my ears. I hadn’t worn earrings in a couple of years so I was forcing them through, blood and all. There I was sitting in my wedding dress just minutes before the wedding. It took about five minutes to break through the ear all the way. Pain aside, I was mostly worried about getting blood on the dress, so we kept putting napkins all around me. It was a last-minute decision to wear the earrings; I wasn’t planning on it because that’s just not my style. If I’m not into getting all done up for my wedding day, you can see that stressing over this stuff during the rest of my life just isn’t that important.
Of course going out “Hollywood style” for us doesn’t always mean red carpets, Escalades, and a glam squad coming over to my house. We do double dates with other couples just like everyone else.
During Dancing with the Stars I became close with cohost Brooke Burke. She’s a mama just like me, and she and her husband, David Charvet, are nice, normal, regular people who just like to go out and have fun. They don’t need wild parties every night. They just need good company (and wine, of course!). So we did a double date at the restaurant Ago and had a lot of fun. Whenever we run into a married couple who are down-to-earth, people who aren’t so conservative and have kids, we like to go on dates with them. These are people who we can relate to. We can’t relate to Hollywood couples who show off their giant mansions and private jets and always have ten bodyguards with them.
Most of the cast of DWTS was going out to the clubs after each show to party all night. I did it once because Kirstie Alley asked me to go with her. But usually that’s not my style anymore. I don’t like to be clubbing all night, especially when I have to wake up to