Kendra Wilkinson, the sporty and youngest member of Hugh Hefner’s triumvirate of blond 20 and 30-somethings, has long been rumored to be the weakest link . She’s not around as much as the other two and is thought to be fighting with them. The way Kendra explains it between taking bites of breadsticks and doing situps, the three women do get along, they just don’t spend a lot of time together and that’s how it works for them. The show’s fifth season, which is thought to be its last, premieres in October. Wilkinson, 23, has made hints that she’s ready to leave the mansion and set out on her own. She recently said that she’s less interested in partying and is interested in her future, which may include kids and a family, presumably not with Hef. She is thought to be in talks for a reality show which follows her follies outside the Playboy cocoon.

One of the Girls Next Door may be moving out and moving on after the E! reality show’s fifth – and likely last – season. “Kendra Wilkinson has been offered her own reality show about starting her life over again when she moves out of the Playboy Mansion,” an insider tells In Touch. “Hugh Hefner knows her time is coming.”

[From In Touch, print edition, September 1, 2008]

Earlier in the month we reported a rumor that a new brunette, a striking Ukranian model named Dasha Astafieva, was getting close to the 82 year-old Playboy magnate and threatened to upset the delicate balance between Holly, Kendra, and Bridget. Hef’s rep says it’s not true, though, and that Dasha lives in the Ukraine and doesn’t plan to move to LA. He’s probably grateful to pare it down to just two.

Hef’s women are shown at The House Bunny premiere on 8/20/08, where Kendra sticks out like a sore thumb. Credit: Nikki Nelson/ WENN

The inevitable has occurred. Hugh Hefner is falling for the charms of a woman outside his trio of girlfriends. According to the National Enquirer, Hugh has been paying a lot of attention to a brunette Ukranian model named Dasha Astafieva. The two have been seen holding hands and Hugh has attended nude photo shoots with the striking young woman. This is royally pissing off Hef’s women, especially his most devoted girlfriend, Holly, who has talked about how much she wants to have the 82 year-old Playboy founder’s baby. Holly mayt have some minor competition in Bridget and Kendra, and by some accounts she’s fighting with Kendra, but she’s in charge in the girlfriend heirarchy. If another woman enters the picture she could find herself lower on the totem pole or get pushed out entirely

Dark-haired Ukranian model Dasha Astafieva has caught the eye of the “Playboy” mogul – and his bleached blonde three-pack of gal pals are fuming mad!…

Dasha snared Hefner after being invited to the Playboy mansion recently as part of a competition to chose the cover model for the magazine’s New Year’s issue. Since then, Hef has been accompanying Dasha on outings, holding her hand and even sitting in on her nude photo shoots.

“Dasha’s natural endowments and beauty stunned Hef,” said the source. “Dasha has upset the pecking order by pushing her way into Hef’s heart. The competition for his attention is really intense among the girls because of her.”

They worry that Dasha is going to end up a regular on the show, taking air time from them, the source said.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, August 18, 2008]

Sporty girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson recently explained that she gets along with the other two women in Hef’s life because they have different roles and basically stay out of each other’s way. She said “If we all wanted the same thing it wouldn’t have worked… We don’t spend time together every day – girls just can’t do that.”

According to Russia Today, Dasha is a winner of the reality show “Stars Factory” in the Ukraine. They also claim that she’s also already moved into the Playboy mansion and started living there in late July. The Enquirer didn’t have her living in the mansion yet, and said Hef’s girlfriends were “terrified” at the prospect. They’re also said to be worried that Dasha will become a regular on their Girls Next Door reality show.

It’s got to be hard to keep three women happy. Even as an octogenarian Hef isn’t satisfied with three young gorgeous women. Like a marriage, the familiar gets boring after a while – even if you have three choices.

Update: Hef’s rep denies this is true, saying Dasha lives in the Ukraine and there are no plans for her to move to the US.

Header photo is from 7/19/08. Credit: WENN/Fayes Vision. Photo below from 7/14/08. Credit: Jody Cortes / WENN. Inset photo of Dasha Astafieva credit: Russia Today

You can enter this into the “not as scary as I thought” file in your brain. The sportiest of Hugh Hefner’s current tri-pack of girlfriends, Kendra Wilkinson, detailed to Fox News’ Pop Tarts exactly how the three ladies divvy up their Hef loving. No, not in terms of sex time. I freaked a bit with worry too – though if you want to find out exactly how that works, an ex-Playmate gave a pretty detailed description. There are some things I just don’t want to imagine – and this runs a close second to “what really goes on in the back room at Taco Bell.” Kendra says the girls’ secret is pretty much staying away from each other as much as possible. Though she says it in a much more diplomatic way.

“We are three very different people — we’re doing very different things with our lives and we don’t step on each other’s toes,” she told Pop Tarts at Ryan Sheckler’s X Games Celebrity Golf Tournament in California on Tuesday. “If we all wanted the same thing it wouldn’t have worked, because that’s where all the drama would have started, but we’re like the Spice Girls — I’m the sporty one. We are on different roads and they don’t intersect. We don’t spend time together every day — girls just can’t do that.”

But it seems as though Kendra’s road might be leading her away from the iconic Playboy Mansion sometime soon. After five years of hopping about, the “Girl Next Door” says she’s getting ready to swap parties for parenting.

“I was only 18 when I first moved in and I’ve grown up so much. I really have a new light on my life,” Wilkinson said. “I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and kids; I don’t care about going crazy and partying anymore. I’m focused on the real life things, my future. That’s who I am now.”

Speaking of the current Kendra, this gal has seriously transformed her little bod from toned to super-toned. According to the starlet, results stem from doing “simple things like running and sit-ups” and drinking “lots and lots of carrot juice.”

[From Fox News]

That carrot juice could explain Kendra’s coloring. According to a lot of recent gossip, Kendra will definitely be leaving the Girls Next Door, but not because she wants to start a family. It’s pretty doubtful that the girls get along, and apparently head Hef licker Holly Madison doesn’t get along with Kendra, and that’s the more likely reason for the departure. It also makes me think that the secret to the girls’ getting along isn’t their alone time – they have a lot of alone time because they don’t get along.

The drama poor Hef has to put up with.

Here’s Kendra and Bridget (background) leaving STK restaurant in West Hollywood with a film crew yesterday. Images thanks to Fame. Header of Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner and Bridget Marquardt at the ESPY Awards Kick-off Party at the Playboy Mansion on July 14th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Shocking – SHOCKING – allegations have been printed in the New York Post that Kendra Wilkinson isn’t really Hef’s girlfriend – and she wants to leave his show The Girls Next Door. The Post claims that Kendra, 21, was just cast to add some youth next to the practically prehistoric Bridget Marquardt, 34, and Holly Madison, 28. They also claim that Kendra breaks all the rules, like not dating anyone but Hef. That’s right, Hef can (try to) boink all three women at once, but they’re only allowed eyes for him.

“Holly and Bridget hate her,” a friend of Wilkinson told Page Six. “They’re totally jealous. She has her own empire now. She’s got a clothing line, a modeling career and an exercise empire. They’re just sitting there hangin’ with Hef.”

The friend expounds, “Kendra was never really Hef’s girlfriend. She was cast for the show [E!'s 'The Girls Next Door'] because Bridget and Holly are old, and they needed a young hot girl for Hef. She was selected from a bunch of Playmate wannabes.” Wilkinson is said to be eyeing her exit from “The Girls Next Door” and the famed mansion next season. “She’s definitely out,” her friend said. “There are too many rules and Holly and Bridget want her gone. They’re so mean to her.”

Wilkinson has had a hard time sticking to the rules of the Playboy mansion – which include a curfew and a strict “no dating other men” line. “She goes out all the time really late and parties,” her pal says. “She’s definitely been linked with other guys . . . She likes rappers and sports guys.”

[From the New York Post]

You can just hear Kendra bitching to the aforementioned friend, “But all the other bunnies are mean to me!!” Interestingly, most of the rumors that have been floating around about her for the last several years are that she is indeed dating other people – other women.

Playboy’s rep of course denied that there were any problems, and told the Post, “‘Hef has always been clear that the girls were his girlfriends before the show was even signed off on. ‘” Sadly on that show it is pretty hard to tell what’s real and what’s made up for the cameras. Fancy doggy birthday party? Totally real. People going at it in the grotto while a flamingo tapes the whole thing to put on the internet later? Partly real. Kendra wanting to get it on with Hugh Hefner? Probably not so real.

Here’s : Kendra Wilkinson leaving Coco de Ville nightclub where she celebrated her birthday in L.A. on June 10th. Images thanks to WENN.