Being Kendra_ Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back - Kendra Wilkinson [77]
I do understand that I’m making a show for my fans and it’s important to me to keep it accurate about my life and experiences, so everyone can relate. But not a lot of people get to live our lifestyle, so while they might be able to relate to my being a mom, there are times fans get a kick out of seeing the fun perks I get to enjoy. The episode where I went to Fashion Week in New York was the highest rated of the third season. Why? Because not a lot of people get to live that lifestyle. It was fun and a fairy tale! A little fashion, a little bit of fun and partying, with drama and realness mixed in.
This season we’re going to step it up and show the Hollywood side of my life a little more. We’re going to show the ins and outs of the Hollywood lifestyle and look behind the scenes. Nobody has a better story than I do in Hollywood: A stripper and a druggie and a girl who lived in the Playboy Mansion ends up with a loving family and the support system that I now have. It shows that you can overcome things and become the person that you have always wanted to be. The fact that America embraces that by tuning in each week shows everyone loves an underdog.
Of course it’s fun to film the parties and the red carpets. But some days I’ll sit on the couch and be like, “Go ahead and film, but I’m going to sit here and do nothing all day.” Sometimes they use that to show me being a lazy slob.
We have a production assistant in charge of continuity who takes pictures so that we can piece scenes together as needed so everything will look the same. We have to put our same clothes back on. If we had purple flowers on the table, someone will need to go out and find those same flowers again and put them on the table. That part of the continuity is easy. The hardest thing for me is to get back into the mood we were in on a particular day.
In the second season Hank and I got in a real fight in front of the cameras, but none of the viewers would have been able to understand what we were arguing about because the backstory wasn’t caught on tape. So no one watching the episode would get it. The producers caught the fight but didn’t catch why we were fighting. We had to get back in the same clothes that we were in and we had to put things in the scene that made the fight make sense to the viewers. They had the fight on-camera and they really wanted to use it, so we had to reenact the part where we made up so it would make sense to the viewers.
The fight was real. So it wasn’t farfetched to have to reenact it. What happened was I was writing my first book and it was a very hard and emotional day for me; that day I was talking to the writer Jon Warech about a lot of heavy stuff. That was around the time my sex tape surfaced, so me and Hank were already on edge about that, but I wanted to tell Jon a little bit about it too. So after having this draining day, I headed home. Hank was having a bad day as well, and one of the producers told him to be serious because they wanted us to talk about what I had put in the book that day. They wanted it to be a serious scene. Then I get home and the same producer came up to me and told me to be lighthearted and just be myself. She had told us two different things accidentally. The producers like to set the mood, but in this case it backfired. We were supposed to be discussing the sex tape and Hank’s acting all serious (and pissed), while I’m coming in all happy like, “Yeah, I make sex tapes every day!” Everyone had gotten their wires crossed and there was some bad communication. I don’t think the producer deliberately tried to get us into a fight, but when you’ve got a whole group of people meddling in your business, ultimately a miscommunication here or