Playboy's Madam Speaks Out Why She Left

Holly Madison shared her relationship with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner with the world — and two other women. As one-third of The Girls Next Door — along with Bridget Marquardt, 35, and Kendra Wilkinson, 23 — Holly put on a happy face at the mansion even as her real-life romance with Hef was crumbling. “The only way I could be happy staying there was if we’d turned our relationship into something more traditional,” Holly, 28, tells In Touch in an exclusive sit-down interview. Instead, devastated over failed attempts to conceive a child with the 82-year-old, Holly finally made the painful decision to leave him in August. “I wanted to have kids,” she says. “When that wasn’t possible, I realized that I had to be honest with Hef and break it off.”