But she told news.com.au the real reality is she’s just a shy girl at heart, one who “never got used to being naked” and who blushes at any mention of the down and dirty details of sex. "Yeah I say the word - sex sex sex - but I’m more conservative than people think,” Wilkinson said. “I actually get shy, if it's anything past the word sex, that’s when I blush. “To tell you the truth, whenever I used to pose for Playboy I used to get so, so scared and I used to cover up and I'd be like 'hurry up!’ "I was very proud, but at the same time I never got used to being naked. I never did and I will never do it again.
"I don’t even know how I did it in the first place, it's weird, I’m just a weird person, I'm a different creature."
The 26-year-old’s star first rose after she met iconic Playboy founder Hugh Hefner when she was 18 and wearing nothing but painted-on accessories. She soon moved into the Playboy mansion as one of Hefner’s three live-in girlfriends and featured prominently in the Playboy reality TV series.
Since then she has wrapped the fourth series of her own Kendra reality show, released multiple sex tapes and written two biographies - the latest of which she admits includes the word “sex” on every single page. In her books Wilkinson discusses intimate details of how her son, Hank IV, was conceived, as well how she lost her virginity and became a drug addict at 13.
She says she will be open and honest with her 20-month-old son about her past. "The drugs that I went through and Playboy - it's all stuff that he's going to face on his own anyway, so why not talk about it and beat everybody to the punch? "I want him to learn about it before everyone else teaches him about it in the wrong way, I'm that type of person and I think it’s better to talk than not to in this day and age."