Being Kendra_ Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back - Kendra Wilkinson [87]
Hell, sometimes I wear free clothes I get sent too. Plus it saves time on shopping! Some mornings, I’ll look in my closet and see something new that Eddie put in there because someone sent it to my agency or my business manager. If someone sent you ten free gorgeous pairs of jeans in your size that fit you perfectly, wouldn’t you wear them? Companies find a way to get their products to me. They’ll send boxes of clothes, books, jewelry, or alcohol. Sometimes they’ll see their product on my show that we use, like a drink or a type of snack, and they’ll send cartloads of it to me.
I know a lot of celebrities will only wear clothes that they endorse or only drink a water that they advertise for, but I can’t get caught up in that stuff. If I get a pair of jeans and I like the way they fit and look, I’m going to wear them. If the company profits from it, good for them! Same goes with my kid. He needs toys and clothes and baby stuff—if someone’s going to send them and I don’t have to go to the store to buy them, all the better. Anything that saves a little time and effort is fine by me!
Chapter 18
Keeping It All Together
The last two years have been a wild ride. I feel more at peace with my life now than I ever have—and it took a lot to get here. I remember the struggles, and I try not to take anything for granted. I am in a loving marriage, so I have to nurture our relationship and appreciate my husband. I have a precocious, beautiful son, so I have to kiss him twice before bed and do everything in my power to give him the best life I can. And I have a wonderful career full of opportunities I never dreamed of, so I try to find new challenges and new ways to connect to my fans.
In the past two years, more than ever, women come up to me and say, “Kendra, I’m worried my man may cheat on me. How can we keep our men from cheating on us?” Here’s what I always say to people: You can’t.
Hank and I talk about infidelity several times a year. It’s not something to hide; we are very open about everything. Life is going to go in directions you can’t control and people are going to do whatever it is they want to do to try to have a life that is happy. The news of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelities came out this year. He had several mistresses, had fathered a love child, and had just been an outright ass to his wife and family. So Hank and I talked about it. We’ve always had these big chats, whether it’s about Tiger Woods or Sandra Bullock and Jesse James; these are really important things to talk about in a marriage. If you are in a marriage and you see the Tiger Woods scandal breaking, you need to talk about it with your spouse. Because that guy was supposed to be one of the good ones, the role model, but it’s obvious he wasn’t.
Hank knows I will never cheat. I consider him the one and only man for me, ever. But it’s very possible that that type of idea existed in Sandra and Jesse’s relationship or Maria and Arnold’s relationship too. You never know.
So one day while the baby was napping, right after the news of Arnold’s infidelity broke, Hank and I were in the kitchen and I asked if we could talk. And I said, “Did you hear about Arnold Schwarzenegger? Well, he cheated on his wife; he actually fathered another child with the woman he cheated with. She was his housekeeper, and Maria Shriver and his family didn’t know about it.” It was all just breaking on the news and I follow all of this stuff way more than Hank, so he just looked at me stunned. The idea of him cheating with someone in their house really angered me. I told Hank, a bit agitated, “Now you know why I don’t let any stranger in my house. Now you know why I don’t trust anybody.” I limit the people I allow in our lives in this day and age. I don’t trust anyone. It’s not that I