{"id":5245590,"date":"2024-01-24T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/?p=5245590"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:54:11","slug":"who-is-crystal-hefner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/who-is-crystal-hefner-5245590\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Hefner: 5 Things to Know About Hugh Hefner&#8217;s Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The former &#8216;Playboy&#8217; Bunny just released her debut memoir &#8216;Only Say Good Things&#8217; about her time with the magazine and her marriage to the late publisher. Get to know more about her here!<\/h3>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/crystal-harris\"  ><strong>Crystal Hefner<\/strong><\/a> (n\u00e9e <strong>Harris<\/strong>) is opening up about her experience with <em>Playboy\u00a0<\/em>and her late husband\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/hugh-hefner\"  ><strong>Hugh Hefner\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>in her new memoir\u00a0<em>Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,\u00a0<\/em>which was released on Tuesday, January 23. The former model and &#8220;Playmate&#8221; was married to the company&#8217;s publisher from 2012, until his death at 91 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">The new book details many of her experiences in the magazine and on the\u00a0<em>Girls Next Door\u00a0<\/em>reality show, as well as <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/hugh-hefner-wife-4627184\/\"  >her marriage<\/a> to Hugh. Ahead of the book&#8217;s release, Crystal, 37, opened up about <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2024\/01\/18\/hugh-hefners-widow-crystal-says-she-was-never-in-love-with-him\/\"  >some of her experiences<\/a> with the <em>Playboy\u00a0<\/em>founder, including claiming that his <a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2024\/01\/24\/crystal-hefner-was-relieved-when-she-stopped-having-sex-with-hugh-hefner\/\"  >sexual prowess was lacking<\/a>. &#8220;He seemed less sex-savvy than some of the teenage boys I\u2019d been with years ago,\u201d she told\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crystal-hefner-says-original-playboy-was-not-good-at-sex-8548332\"  target=\"_blank\"  >People<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>\u201dIt was clear to me Hef had never taken a moment in his entire life to figure out how to please someone else.&#8221; With the book hitting retailers, get to know more about Crystal here!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5245670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5245670\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5245670\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/who-is-crystal-hefner-embed.jpg?quality=100&#038;w=620&#038;resize=620%2C868\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"868\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5245670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MediaPunch\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Crystal Was First Featured in &#8216;Playboy&#8217; in 2008<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Crystal first met Hugh when she attended a party at the Playboy Mansion when she was 21-years-old. As the party reached it&#8217;s end, she was one of the girls who was invited to spend the night with Hugh and engage in sex, as she told\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/17\/style\/crystal-hefner-playboy-only-say-good-things.html\"  target=\"_blank\"  >The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in a January 2024 interview. Shortly after making her introduction, Crystal was featured on the <em>Playboy\u00a0<\/em>website, where she was featured as a &#8220;Co-Ed of the Week&#8221; in October 2008. She became a featured star on the\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/girls-next-door\"  ><em>Girls Next Door\u00a0<\/em><\/a>reality show the following year.\u00a0A little over a\u00a0 year later, she featured as the December 2009 <em>Playboy<\/em> Playmate of the Month, and one year after that, she and Hugh got engaged, per\u00a0<em><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/883613\/inside-hugh-hefner-and-wife-crystal-harris-unlikely-yet-strangely-loving-marriage\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\"  >E! News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The two of them tied the knot in 2012.<\/p>\n<h2>She Signed With a Record Label Early in Her Career<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">Aside from her modeling, Crystal also had a very short-lived music career. It was announced that she had signed with the Organica Music Group, and she released her debut single &#8220;Club Queen&#8221; in 2011, per an announcement from <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.electrastarmgmt.com\/news\/michael-blakey-and-organica-music-group\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\"  >Electra Star Management<\/a>. Crystal&#8217;s lone single is a piece of dance-pop, familiar to anyone listening to the radio or going out in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n<h2>She Had Her Own Clothing and Swimsuit Lines<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">In addition to modeling, Crystal has been involved in the fashion world. In May 2012, she co-designed a swimwear line with <a  href=\"https:\/\/veveswimwear.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/veve-swimwear-photo-shoot-with-crystal.html\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\"  >Veve<\/a>, which she also modeled. In 2014, she partnered with\u00a0<strong>Rhonda Shear <\/strong>for a new line of intimates, athleisure, and loungewear. She opened up about working with the TV personality in a\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/things-to-do\/stage\/hugh-hefners-wife-crystal-hefner-talks-about-her-line-at-tampa-bay-fashion\/2197997\/\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  target=\"_blank\"  ><em>Tampa Bay Times\u00a0<\/em><\/a>interview. &#8220;Rhonda, she has the expertise of knowing the ins and outs of the whole industry. With her knowledge and my designs, we bring them together. I&#8217;ll give her all my ideas and we&#8217;ll make the samples. I&#8217;ll ask her guidance of what she thinks will sell, things like that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<h2>She Now Works in Real Estate<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Since Hugh died in 2017, Crystal has had a bit of a career change. As of now, she currently currently buys and sells rental properties, per the above-mentioned\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>story. She also lives in Los Angeles, but she also spends time on a farm that she bought in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<h2>She&#8217;s Had Complications Due to Plastic Surgery<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Crystal had a near-death experience in October 2020, while undergoing a fat transfer surgery. She revealed the scary moments in a January 2021 Instagram <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJuNbkUM_a1\/\"  target=\"_blank\"  >post<\/a>, where she revealed that she was on the mend. &#8220;I had a fat transfer surgery October 16 and almost didn\u2019t make it through. I lost half the blood in my body and ended up in the hospital needing a blood transfusion. I\u2019ve been slowly eating my way back to health since then and I am now finally feeling ok,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">This wasn&#8217;t the first time that she&#8217;s run into problems relating to a cosmetic procedure, and she opened up about how this was a reminder of her past experience. &#8220;I advocate for being natural since I got very ill and removed my implants and everything else toxic in my body in 2016. I should have learned my lesson the first time but I guess the universe keeps sending you the same lesson until you learn it,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former &#8216;Playboy&#8217; Bunny just released her debut memoir &#8216;Only Say Good Things&#8217; about her time with the magazine and her marriage to the late publisher. 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