Here are some photos of Kendra Wilkinson on Tuesday. She looks amazing considering she gave birth less than two months ago AND she only recently learned that her husband was fooling around on her (with a trans model) while she was pregnant. It’s also worth noting that Kendra is not wearing her wedding ring, which might be some visual evidence that Us Weekly’s story was right, that Kendra “flushed” her ring when she learned of Hank’s affair. Fame/Flynet even theorizes that Kendra was headed to her lawyer’s office in these photos, but they don’t confirm anything. Who knows? Well, In Touch Weekly seems to think they know what’s going on:
Kendra Wilkinson hasn’t stopped crying since news broke of her husband Hank Baskett’s cheating scandal with transsexual Ava London.
“She’s inconsolable,” a source reveals in the new issue of In Touch Weekly. “She’s not eating, not showering, not sleeping and she’s sobbing all the time.”
The source tells In Touch that she is putting her foot down and will not be going back to the former NFL player. “They are 100 percent done,” an insider tells In Touch. “She will never get over this.”
A second insider shares that Kendra has three girlfriends at the house helping her stay positive and take care of the kids.
“She’s such a good mother and so strong,” her close pal and former Kendra co-star Jessica Hall tells In Touch. “She’s a tough cookie. Always has been.”
I think this is possible. As I said, the betrayal is so strong and so shocking, I don’t see how most women would be able to “forgive and forget.” But Us Weekly – the outlet that I believe has been getting tips from Kendra – says that Kendra is “still in shock” and she’s still feeling tired and out-of-it because, you know, she only recently gave birth. Sources say Kendra’s #1 priority is taking care of the kids, not dealing with Hank’s crap. But the sources also say that Hank is still living at the house, which sucks. He apparently checked into a hotel right when the news broke, but I guess he’s back to living with his family?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I hope she doesn’t take him back. Sad for her family, but once a cheater…I could never trust someone again after a betrayal like that.
Ouch–living with your ex while separating? That’s hellish. Hope that situation ends soon.
Snide OT: Hank Basket’s name alone would have been enough to repel me, and thumbs down to both of them for cursing their adorable son with it.
Happened to me with my first husband. Didn’t take me long to realize that wasn’t going to work for me, I took the kids, our stuff, got myself off the condo lease, and bailed.
Original, I sympathize.
Godwina, I think they live in a mansion so it can’t be *that* bad compared to the average couple.
I find Kendra strangely likable.
Jackass.
Call JLO.
Ha!
What happened to Kendra sucks, no one should have to deal with being cheated on. It was made worse by the fact she was pregnant at the time.
But I can’t help wondering if all this turmoil will soon be played out on a reality show or a new one dealing with her new life as a single mom re entering the dating pool? I would not be surprised
Yeah I wonder about that too considering all those blind items…apparently cheating is a cash cow for all parties when you’re a “celebrity “
There are rumors that she’ll do a reality show a la Tori & Dean.
“She’s such a good mother and so strong,” her close pal and former Kendra co-star Jessica Hall tells In Touch. “She’s a tough cookie. Always has been.”
Really? Such a Good mom that Kate Gosselin of all people had to explain to her she needed to actually spend time with her son instead of bringing him from one babysitter to another every day so she could go work out and hit another bar? (Wife swap!) She is trash, not that she deserves what her hubby did to her, but let’s not call her mom of the year.
i’m gonna watch that ep right now! thx for the tip, puts things in perspective!
What show is this? I wanna see. 😉
Yes
Hank was the one taking care of their son and the house. Kendra just wanted to have fun. Hank is trash for cheating on Kendra but he seems to be a better parent than her.
Yes, but don’t you think it was played up for the show? I always second guess the genuineness of reality television, but she did cry in the episode so idk
EXACTLY! And this “cheating scandal” stinks of a reality show or something.
I watched that Wife swap episode, and honestly she was not that bad? She obviously adores her son. You do know that it it is a fairly scripted reality show and both sides “play up” the type of wife they are supposed to be for the camera?
call me crazy, but I have a feeling most if not all of those playmates have not had a normal upbringing. so she might not know to be a wife/mother if her parents did not model the typical family life. so I can see how she might not know how to be a proper wife/mother.
The tell-tale signs of a beautiful mom in distress: No jewelry on. No polish on her fingers or toes. Her hair is scraped back. Kendra is stressed out here. (I was once a brand-new mom with a fatally ill infant and I see the signs. I could only hold it together for a couple hours a day, even when I went back to my broadcasting job). I’m glad she has good friends helping.
Heartbreaking Sumodo. I hope you had good friends too.
I’m sure we’ll conveniently see her devastation played out on the next season of her reality show.
She suffered postpartum depression from her first pregnancy. I hope she doesn’t suffer from that this time coupled with this devastating betrayal.
I don’t care who you are or what you have-this would suck for anyone. I would make him leave immediately. I am not a fan of hers, but no one needs that crap in their life.
Why do these stories and the ones about JLo’s ex always stress the TRANSmodel part? Is it somehow less of a betrayal if the person your partner cheats with is CIS gendered?
I agree it makes no difference, but from the tabloid’s perspective, this makes the story juicier, and that’s the main reason it’s being stressed: it helps manufacture interest in the story.
well, because it’s bizarre.
I think it’s because you assume your partner is straight if they’re with you (or gay, if you’re both gay) and when they go to someone who is clearly the same gender, you wonder if you knew them at all. I mean, if a gay guy cheated on his partner with a female, wouldn’t it be even more shocking because it was assumed both were gay? It’s horrible to cheat no matter what, and there’s no excuse for it, but it’s additionally stunning if you realize, maybe my partner isn’t the same orientation as I am.
Um it’s way worse if he cheats with a trans model. I can’t explain it. Just is.
I do believe one can recover from cheating, however cheating whilst pregnant is a double hurt IMO. PLUS, is this trans-model pre-op or post-op? If pre-op then there are other issues that need to be addressed such as does he even want to be with women?
She still has her penis and doesn’t plan on getting it changed in the future. I guess Hank and her played with each other’s during said encounter.
haha
Yeah, I don’t think I’d ever get over something like this either. She needs to cut him loose. It’s a shame, he seemed pretty supportive and in love with her, but what he did kind of makes all that moot.
She looks pretty damn good for someone who’s not eating, sleeping or showering. Hank is an idiot though and I feel for her. What was he thinking? Beautiful family, new baby and your wife is a hot Playmate that seems like a cool chick that’s down for anything. Poor Hank, I guess it just wasn’t enough.
Team Kendra!
Its not hard to guess what he was thinking – they got married because she was pregnant, and then after she had baby #1 she pretty much bailed. She was widely reported as partying it up all the time, leaving Hank at home with the baby. I was surprised they even had a second kid, since it was obvious that she was pretty checked out. He’s an idiot to have cheated, but it’s not like Kendra was wife and mother of the year.
Kendra wasn’t exactly a supportive wife- she was bored in one place he was working in the Midwest and thought it made great sense to take the baby and herself back to the West coast so she could hang out with her friends, all at a time when babies forget people so easily and when obviously the baby’s father wanted to be a real father. He was a not-spectacular athlete and susceptible to getting traded frequently, so he didn’t have much choice other than quitting his profession entirely (no more money for big house and stuff for K). Kendra had an awful role model in her ice cold mom, though, who was not so subtly pushing for an abortion and who had been delighted when her barely 18 year old daughter got plastic surgery and became a live-in “girlfriend” of Hugh Hefner. Kendra met Hank at some party or pseudoathletic event there. Hank’s parents seemed very nice and normal in the little bits of the show I saw- I always thought Kendra had been very lucky to marry Hank, she got a normal family out of it. Well, normal relatively speaking. Really normal people wouldn’t go along with the idea of a “reality” show. It’s such a weird phenomenon. But they were orders of magnitude nicer than her mother.
I wonder if the fact that it was a pre-op trans woman made Hank feel he wasn’t really cheating? It seems so odd, not really in character for him as I recall. But living with Kendra never seemed easy- she turned out much better than her mom, but she didn’t seem to know how to do anything. Everything was such a mess both in her room at Hef’s and in the huge house she lived in with Hank after that – okay if you live alone with the dogs, but wearing if you live with other people (well, hard on the other people). I wonder if depression had been part of her problem all along, not just post-partum. I always felt sorry for her, she was so young when she prostituted herself out to old Hef and she seemed to have some potential for other things. She seemed happiest when doing something athletic. The others in the girlfriend trio at the time were older and had other options they chose not to pursue for their own weird reasons.
And he cheated.. With a man! Thats not
something a person can get over!
A trans woman isn’t really a man, even if pre-op. First of all, she has decided to be a woman and deserves respect for her decision regardless of whether we understand it or not. People don’t go through such transitions on a whim. Drastic surgery is actually not needed for a trans woman if she is comfortable with keeping her original equipment. Physically, most of the changes can be made with hormones for people going in either direction, male to female or female to male, so messing with the urogenital system can be avoided and thus many physical complications are avoided.
I’ve seen men attracted to trans women specifically (usually or often also to birthright women) who are not attracted to men. It’s more complicated to wrap our heads around if we haven’t known anybody personally, but there’s a reason trans women use the female pronoun (and adjectives in languages requiring gender for such). Gender is far more complex than many people realize. Anyway, we still know nothing about Hank’s sexual orientation from this incident.
Thank you!!! A trans woman is a woman just like a cis woman. Even if she never opts for reassignment surgery.
Taking a leaf out of Tori Spellings playbook perhaps?…
You can’t excuse cheating- if you’re unhappy, get out of the relationship and be free first. But it has to be doubly painful when you’ve just given birth and are extra hormonal and emotional. Kendra never seemed particularly interested in parenting; she was always partying with friends. I was thinking she seemed to have matured lately. And it’s bad enough to cheat, but when you begin to question if the person was the same orientation as you thought all along, I think it’s even worse. Hank may need to think about what his true orientation is. No matter what, it’s a horrible situation for Kendra and their kids.
Cheat in is awful, cheating while your wife is pregnant is inexcusable. Cheating on your pregnant wife with a transsexual is solo incredibly awful because you wonder if he is gay and your life is a lie. Hank is the scum of the earth to me. I had a difficult pregnancy and a difficult time losing baby weight. If my husband (WHO GOT ME PREGNANT to begin with) did this, I would take the kids and run. Fast. She has all The resources in the world and I still feel bad for her. Imagine this happening to someone broke and unsupported.
Being attracted to someone who is trans does not make you gay. Gender is a construct, and is more complicated than your sexual organs.
Take your transphobia elsewhere. It’s not cute.
ok, it’s true that folks have some difficulty with the dynamic lines between sexual orientation and gender, but give me a break. if i presumed or was told by my partner that s/he was of one sexual orientation and found out that s/he was having an affair with a person with different sexual organs than me, it would be a special kind of devastating. it would make me think s/he was lying or suppressing desire for a partner i could never be. you can’t wrap your super evolved head around that?
I’m with G
I’m with Pinky. Because it’s like being left for someone of the opposite sex, for example, like a woman leaving her husband for another woman. it would make a man feel like he weren’t man enough for her, or else why would she leave him for another woman? in kendra’s case, it’s prob really confusing because she thought he was straight. so it’s a double whammy. not only is he cheating on her, he’s cheating on her with someone of the opposite sex! it’s the double whammy, not the fact that the other person is trans. so we are not being transphobic.
Yeah, her husband totally sucks but yet, I don’t feel the least bit sorry for her.
Weird.
I feel bad for anyone in this situation but cheating happens all the time. Pregnant wives get cheated on all the time. At least kendra has more money and resources than the average betrayed wife. Also its hard to imagine any relationship working for her because the fact is she prostituted herself to a wealthy old man who blatantly made her one of his many in the public eye. No man is going to respect her even if they think she’s hot. Couple that with her being an irresponsible mother and behaving uber immature…major turn off in and out of the bedroom. I feel sorry for the kids who have a selfish coward for a dad and an ignorant trashy mother who only seems to have one adjective in
Her vocabulary…the F bomb. Girl needs to go back to school and do something respectable with her life but they never do.
So sad. Betrayal is such a painful emotion to experience.
If he could overlook her being Hugh Hefners live in sex toy enough to marry her….maybe in time she can forgive him. She wasn’t all that supportive of his career but he stayed. It’s tragic but they may be able to get through it.