Playboy boss Hugh Hefner BANNED Playmates from wearing this ONE thing because it made them look ‘old’ says ex Holly Madison of Girls Next Door
There was something the pretty Playboy Playmates could not wear.
Former Girls Next Door star Holly Madison, 43, shared this week that there was one thing Playboy editor Hugh Hefner did not allow his ladies to have on.
It was not a clothing item, she said on the Apple podcast Ahead Of The Curve with Coco Mocoe.
Rather, it was red lipstick.
Pink, mauve and purple were OK, but not red, said the blonde beauty who admitted she had on a scarlet shades ‘a couple of times’ before Hef said no more because he ‘hated’ it.
Publishing mogul Hefner died at age 91 in 2017.
Banned! There was something the pretty Playboy Playmates could not wear. Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner seen in September 2003
No thanks: Former Girls Next Door star Madison, 43, shared this week that there was one thing Playboy editor Hugh Hefner did not allow his ladies to have on. Seen on the cover of Playboy in 2009
She moved into the Playboy Mansion at the age of 21 in 2001. Madison dated Hefner for seven years, from 2001 to 2008.
Holly said banning red lipstick was ‘a control tactic.’
And Holly shared that Hef felt that red lipstick made women look ‘older.’
Madison wearing red lip stick now and then became an issue ‘six months’ into living in the famed Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, California, she said.
‘He felt like he had the leeway to yell at me over it,’ said Holly.
‘I think it was a control tactic, but also, when I was brand new, I wore red lipstick out a couple of times, and he didn’t say anything about it, because when you were the new girl in the group, you were always treated well.’
Madison then explained, ‘Somebody said, like, the higher up you are in a cult the worse you’re treated because they want the new people to want to bond and feel into it.
Pink please: It was not a clothing item, she said on the Ahead of the Curve with Coco Mocoe podcast. Rather, it was red lipstick. Pink, mauve and purple were OK, but not red, said the blonde beauty who admitted she had on a scarlet shades ‘a couple of times’ before Hef said no more because he ‘hated’ it
His harem: from left, Madison, Hugh Hefner, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson The Girls Next Door in 2005
‘So I would wear red lipstick when I was new,’ she added.
‘It wasn’t a big deal. It wasn’t a big deal until, like, six months into it, when I was living in his bedroom, and I was the main girlfriend, then he felt like he had the leeway to yell at me over it.’
Red felt dated to Hefner, she shared, even though his idol Marilyn Monroe after wore ruby red lipstick.
‘I think he didn’t love it, because when he invented the concept of a Playmate in the ’50s, he wanted the women to look very young and fresh-faced because he felt like the look in the ’50s at the time was very — He described it as ‘somebody’s older sister,’ Madison said.
(L to R) Playboy bunny Sheila Levell, Hefner and Playboy bunny Holly in 2003
Red is out: ‘To him, that was an older mature woman,’ Holly concluded, ‘and it wasn’t, like, the barely legal thing anymore.’ She is the author of Down the Rabbit Hole; seen in 2011 in Las Vegas
‘It was very more sophisticated, fashion model, red lipstick,’ she continued.
‘It was a lot of fabric and big skirts and everything, and he hated that. He wanted skimpy and fresh-faced and very young looking.’
‘So I think that’s where his hatred of red lipstick came from [because] to him, that was an older mature woman,’ Holly concluded, ‘and it wasn’t, like, the barely legal thing anymore.’
She is the author of Down the Rabbit Hole.
The Oregon native is a model and television personality, best known as a former girlfriend of Hefner and for her appearance in the reality television show The Girls Next Door.
She also starred in her own reality series, Holly’s World, which ran from 2009 to 2011.
Earlier this year it was reported she is dating Zak Bagans again more than two years after they split in February 2021.
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