what Izabella St. James really thought being Hugh Hefner's girlfriend

Book club!! We're recapping and reflecting on Izabella St. James' memoir, Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion. As one of the girlfriends in the final group of seven, leaving just before the Girls Next Door era, Izabella reflects in this book on the benefits, drawbacks, and misconceptions about living as one of the Seven Girlfriends of Hugh Hefner. I'm highlighting anecdotes and pointing out some differences in what Izabella tells us in this 2006 account, versus what we're hearing more recently from her and others about this time at the mansion.

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00:00 Intro (+ my biases!)

02:08 What Izabella really thought of Zoe Gregory

03:28 Zoe + Izabella vs Holly + Bridget

04:59 Youth

05:25 Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, her intro to Playboy

07:46 First Fun in the Sun

09:17 Graduation + prepping for the Bar; meeting Zoe

11:10 Grammys 2002 + not passing the Bar

15:02 Becoming a live-in Girlfriend

17:36 Rumors about previous Girlfriends