Kendra Wilkinson Admits She Needed ‘Intense Healing’ After Her Divorce Triggered A Deep Depression

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During the Jun. 22 occurrence of Melissa Gorga‘s On Display podcast, The Girls Next Door alum Kendra Wilkinson, 38, opened up astir her intelligence wellness struggles pursuing her divorcement from Hank Baskett, 40. “We had a large marriage, but present we are large co-parents. You know, of course, cipher truly signs up for a matrimony to get divorced,” Kendra, who shares Alijah Mary, 9, and lad Hank Jr., 12, with her ex, said. “And that wasn’t truly the portion of my slump I went done for similar 4 to 5 years. Divorce was –  conscionable triggered my depression.”

Kendra Wilkinson was joined to Hank Baskett from 2009 to 2018. (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

On the heels of their split, the 38-year-old’s decennary connected world TV was besides coming to an end, adding much for her to grieve. “So I went through a divorce, mislaid everything I knew, which was my TV show. I had a TV amusement each twelvemonth until my divorcement and past my divorcement happened,” she went connected to explicate to the RHONJ star. “And each of a abrupt present I’m near with nary marriage. I’m near with nary show. I had to determination into a small house. I didn’t recognize what was going connected right… and each of a abrupt I had to bash immoderate aggravated healing.”

Later, the Kendra connected Top alum went connected to uncover wherefore she ended up pursing her existent career successful existent estate. “For years, I didn’t person fame. I didn’t person everything I knew for a truly agelong time. I don’t cognize who I was,” she shared. “I was like, truthful mislaid and I had to bash immoderate superior healing similar to the constituent wherever I bash like, oof, past that’s however I chose existent property was due to the fact that I had to fig it retired and enactment religion successful thing again, enactment religion successful life, and I chose existent estate, not adjacent knowing a camera would adjacent crook connected again.” Her latest series, Kendra Sells Hollywood, premiered successful 2021 and is presently connected its 2nd season.

Kendra Wilkinson & her ex, Hank Baskett, stock 2 kids. (Solar/Ace Pictures/Shutterstock)

Kendra and the erstwhile jock got joined successful 2009, astatine the tallness of her world TV success. The erstwhile lovebirds went connected to person respective shows unneurotic including Kendra and Kendra connected Top. By 2014, their matrimony began to crumble aft reports claimed that Hank cheated connected Kendra, which they openly discussed connected the show Marriage Boot Camp. They finalized their divorcement successful 2018. While chatting with Melissa connected Thurs., Kendra attributed her information successful beingness to her beautiful children.

“All portion being a mother, don’t hide you inactive person kids. I wasn’t really. It was intolerable to beryllium blessed astatine that point. I didn’t adjacent cognize however to beryllium happy,” she went on. “All my kids were. What were my kids? Gave maine the intent to effort to enactment alive, to support going, to thrust them to hockey and hoops and grin and ticker them bash everything school. They they’re the ones who kept my bosom beating, right? Right.” Her existent property series, Kendra Sells Hollywood, archetypal premiered connected Discovery+, and is present streaming connected Max.

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