Barbi's Daughter Tells All! with Special Guest Ariana Gradow
Girls Next Level
Girls Next Level
4.9 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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This week we are joined by a very special guest, Ariana Gradow! Ariana talks being abducted by aliens, growing up in The Copper Palace, her mom Barbi Benton's relationship with Hef and her experiences on The Girls Next Door seasons 4 and 5.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Holly and I'm Bridget and this is Girls Next Level. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to Girls Next Level podcast, everybody. We are very excited because we have a special guest here who we haven't seen since she was on season four of the show many years ago. And we're super excited to catch up with her. We have Ariana |
| 0:21.4 | Gradow here. And she also goes by Air, which we love. I love that because I know that you do |
| 0:28.1 | Ariel and everything. I just think that's such a cool. Yeah. Like such a cool shortening of your |
| 0:33.5 | name. Yeah. I actually started going by Air when I was seven. Oh. And I wrote a book about it. My nanny gave me this like, this thing that you illustrate. It's actually great for kids. It's, you can, like, illustrate the pictures and write a story. And then they send it off and make it into a hard copy book. Yeah. So I have, like, a hard copy book about this woman who goes by area. Her name is ariana and she goes by air like rescuing |
| 0:57.2 | this little girl and she like turns into a turtle and saves her and that is so cute it's really |
| 1:04.4 | cool old soul stuff right there no i did that yeah so i finally like started going by air probably after I met you guys. And I went through a period where I was like, I'm going to adopt it. And then I named my company, my now company is called Art of Air. I love that. Yeah. That's so cool. I love it too. I feel like that's something your kids would like to do. Rainbow did do like one of the books that you can like draw online and send off to be printed out. She did? Yeah, it was called Rainbow and her friends. And it was like a picture of her on the front and she looked very. Did she illustrate it? Yeah. See, it's going to be so she's going to love that as an adult. It's like the best gift for kids. I feel like. That's really cool. I love that your daughter's name is Rainbow. |
| 1:45.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:46.0 | Amazing. |
| 1:47.1 | You got air and rainbow. |
| 1:48.7 | What are your other kids names? |
| 1:50.6 | Forest is my son. |
| 1:52.1 | Forest and Rainbow. |
| 1:53.5 | They like to hang out in the forest with the rainbow. |
| 1:56.5 | I have Dennis and Terry. |
| 1:58.4 | Cats. |
| 2:03.5 | Okay. So tell everybody, we're going to get like some background on you and everything. |
| 2:07.3 | Tell everybody where you grew up. |
| 2:09.1 | I grew up in Aspen. |
| 2:10.4 | You guys came to the house in this ridiculous spaceship. |
| 2:16.0 | What was it like growing up there? Did that just seem normal to you? Were you always in that house from State 1? Yeah. Really? Did you get lost in there as a kid? No. At some point you learn. It's like the mansion. People probably ask you if you get lost of it. I, so we moved in there when I was about nine. We used to the house before that was called the mushroom house. |
| 2:36.5 | I've seen pictures of that online. |
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