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The Gurls Talk Podcast

Holly Madison... on Playboy, female friendship, and embracing neurodiversity

The Gurls Talk Podcast

Gurls Talk

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8584 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Holly Madison is a model, television personality, and New York Times bestselling author. She gained fame for her role in the reality show "The Girls Next Door," showcasing life at the Playboy Mansion. Beyond her entertainment career, Holly is an advocate for body positivity and recently shared her late in life autism diagnosis with the world. Follow Holly on Instagram @hollymadison Follow Holly on TikTok @hollyjeanmadison You can watch Holly on the Investigation Discovery serie...

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0:00.0

Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls Talk, our own safe space where we share, listen and support each other.

0:10.0

So get cozy and join me. Adjua Burr for some much-needed girls' talk.

0:15.5

Well, thank you so much, Holly, for being on the podcast.

0:18.7

This feels like a very nostalgic. I was telling my sister

0:23.0

and my boyfriend today this morning, they were like asking who I was having on the podcast,

0:28.0

and my sister was like, I can't believe it. Oh, that's so sweet. And it is, it's that,

0:35.4

you know, I grew up obsessing over the girls next door and obsessing over you

0:41.1

and your girlfriends and what you were getting up to, which when I think about it now feels

0:47.3

not odd because actually, but I was quite young to be watching a show like that and I was like,

0:54.1

that was something my sister and I were talking about.

0:57.4

Yeah, it's so strange.

0:58.8

A lot of families watch the show together and a lot of really young kids.

1:02.7

And it was definitely a show that was presented in a way where you could kind of look at it two

1:07.3

different ways.

1:08.0

Like either you could have that intrigue where you kind of know what's going on because you're an adult and you're connecting the dots, or you could kind of look at it as it was kind of presented as almost like a sitcom family in a way. Like I've had so many people contact me on social media and say, I used to watch that show when I was a kid and I literally thought it was like a grandpa and his granddaughters. It was just so weird how it came off. No, no. I think you're right. I think you're right.

1:34.3

There wasn't like, I don't know if my sister and I watching the show knew what we were actually watching.

1:40.8

I think we're both like inherently curious people and you are even more curious when

1:45.4

you're that age. And so to just have a kind of like, and also we're English, you guys are

1:51.7

American. So there's that also. There's that curiosity about how these like American girls are

1:56.8

like living their lives. I think it was more so that. It didn't feel like seedy or anything,

2:01.7

but it was just a funny show for my sister and I to like grow up watching. And I know a lot of like

2:07.1

my generation and the one and people older than myself also grew up watching the door, watching

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