14 DAY TRIAL // In what must be a new record for this type of thing, the first photo of Kendra Wilkinson’s first baby, a boy named Hank Baskett IV, has already surfaced on the cover of the upcoming issue of OK! Magazine. Editors for the tab were invited at the hospital, where the star was recovering after giving birth, and were lucky to get her talking about how it felt to be a new mommy.
Although she claims to have “labor brain” and to have forgotten everything that happened since she was taken to the hospital, Kendra can’t stop talking about her and husband Hank Baskett new bundle of joy. She feels great after the experience and the fact that she finally gets to hold little Hank is truly a dream come true, she says. And it more than shows in the photo, with Kendra smiling wide as she’s cradling the baby in her arms.
“World, meet Hank Randall Baskett IV – newborn son of Kendra Wilkinson Baskett, 24, and her husband, Hank, 27, a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. After initially planning a natural childbirth, the former Playboy model delivered the couple’s first child by C-section at 12:37 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2009, in Carmel, Ind.” OK! writes, promising plenty of details from Kendra on the experience, to which she refers as a very “awesome” thing.
“The good thing about being induced is that it’s like planning a trip, just very calm. We ate a huge dinner before we came to the hospital. I ate a whole batch of brownies because I was nervous. No wonder he’s 9 pounds! I was induced early in the morning; then it was wait, wait, wait. I was experiencing contractions throughout the day, and I was anxious. I kept checking the monitor every second, like ‘Is it happening yet?’” the former glamour model says for the magazine.
As noted above, this could easily be a new record in terms of a media outlet rushing with an offer to get a celebrity’s baby photos. Tradition in showbiz makes it so that this kind of pictures can make a lot of money, with their value going up if the waiting period is longer. Never before has a star sold pictures with their 2-day old child, they say, which could also mean that demand for them was incredibly high.