Playboy Doesn’t Pay Much, Holly Madison Says

For four years, Holly Madison was Hugh Hefner’s number one live-in girlfriend, while also a constant presence at the Playboy headquarters and on the pages of said magazine. After word got out in the media yesterday that she has quit her job as editor, the model herself has took to her official blog to explain that it was because the job did not pay enough that she left.

Holly is currently in a relationship with “Mindfreak” magician Criss Angel and, she says in her post, keeping her job as Playboy editor did not pay enough to allow her to commute to Las Vegas to be with her love interest. Moreover, keeping the position would have also meant that she held onto the past, a thing she did not want to do as her purpose is now to break completely free of her previous life, she reveals.

“When one is trying to move on with their life, it isn’t beneficial to spend so much time on something that doesn’t pay much and sadly enough is no longer rewarding to you,” Madison writes in the post, as quoted by People magazine. At the same time, Holly wants to make sure that she sets the record straight on certain things about her, like how the job was real and not just an invention for the “Girls Next Door” series, as many have speculated in time.

“I never cared about the salary when I got the job – I made my money doing ‘Girls Next Door,’ and I just did the job because I loved it. It annoys me when people call the job fake as if it was just a set-up for the show. If I had wanted a fake career, I would have stuck with the jewelry line because that required very little of my time.” Madison explains.

Holly Madison left the Playboy mansion and Hugh Hefner in October last year. Shortly after her, Hef’s other two girlfriends, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt, also decided time had come for them to move on.