EXCERPTS/ NOTES from
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison
Pages 66 and 68 and 72:
"Inside the mansion, life wasn't at all like what I dreamed it would be. Instead of a nightly slumber party with six of your best friends, I had entered the lions den. It gave a whole new meaning to the phrase, "keep your enemies close" and made a sorority house look like Bible Study.
... He ( Hugh Hefner) decided he wasn't going to make any more of his girlfriends Playmates, but he never told that to anyone. He dangled the possibility of Playmate-hood in order to keep the girl's interested. The more aggressive girlfriends would take whatever measures necessary to secure a centerfold, even ruthlessly throwing another girl under the bus, if that meant she would gain favor with him.
Prior to moving into the mansion, I'd been a fairly confident person but it didn't take long for my self-worth to start to crumble. After being identified by the other girlfriends as persona non grata, I had become the victim of their ruthless "mean - girl-ing." .... According to their ruthless taunting I was the "hick girl" from Nowheresville, USA. They found my optimistic attitude corny and my confidence threatening so they did whatever they could to tear me down. Sadly, I have to say it worked...
... I was so constantly on edge that I eventually developed a stammer
Notes from Missy
Throughout the book, Hugh Hefner is characterized as a manipulator who likes it that the women are fighting over him and so with each other.
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