Holly Madison Defends Baby Name, Zings Crystal Harris

Holly Madison is at it again, but she’s not taking Hugh Hefner to task this time. Rather, she’s defending her baby’s name … and taking a dig at Hef’s wife.

As a new mom, the 35-year-old Madison said she faced severe criticism, not because of her Playboy past, but for naming her daughter Rainbow.

“Oh, yeah. I got flooded with stupid commentary on social media,” she said. “It’s definitely a unique name. I like unique names.”

“I wouldn’t have picked it if were common. But, growing up, there was a girl in my class named Rainbow. I grew up in Oregon.”

“A lot of hippies went [there] to start families. There was a girl at school named Rainbow. I was so jealous and I wanted it to be my name.”

“So it’s definitely unusual, but it’s a name. It’s not like I called her Coffee Table. People love to say, ‘That’s a stripper name."”

“But I’ve spent a lot of time in Vegas and strippers aren’t named Rainbow. They’re named Amber, Crystal and Jessica.”

Hugh Hefner, Madison’s infamous Playboy founder ex, went on to marry Crystal Harris after Holly broke things off with him.

Intentional, subtle shade on Holly’s part?

Maybe, maybe not. But she’s not wrong about the name. No offense to Crystals across the nation and world. We still love you.

Madison, who has taken Hef to task for trying to buy her for $ 3 million and subjecting her to sick orgies, says he is not in her life now.

“Absolutely not,” Holly said. “When I left the mansion we were cordial for a while but eventually I opened my eyes to what kind of person he was.”

“We haven’t talked for years.”

Madison said she penned Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny for her daughter.

“I wanted my side of the story out there. I never had a voice. It was always shaped by the TV show or by Playboy or Hef himself,” she says.

“But I want my daughter to know why I made the decisions I did. Since writing the book, I’ve had a lot of practice defending myself.”

Talking about “the choices I made,” Madison says, has been cathartic and “good practice for discussing those decisions with her.”

As for Rainbow following in her footsteps?

“I would not be OK with it,” she insisted.

“When she is an adult, she will be able to do what she wants, but from Day One I’ve tried to raise her to know she has value.”

“She has value. Her body parts have value, and she doesn’t have to do something cheap or tawdry to get attention.”

“If she wanted to – God forbid – I would tell her my whole experience with it and I’d be honest that it wasn’t what I thought it would be.”

Holly Madison: I Dumped Hugh Hefner Because ...

Holly Madison didn’t reveal every Playboy secret in her book.

The former Playboy centerfold and author is still dishing on Hugh Hefner and his magazine empire, and she’s not pulling any punches. At all.

In Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, Holly says Hefner was miserable in bed.

As fun as it might sound to read about Holly Madison orgies, she says the Mansion she called home was controlling and very depressing.

Hugh loved to play mind games with his girls, she says, creating false competition between them and leaving them feeling second-class.

Their relationship was such that when she finally tried to leave, she claimed, the mogul tried to buy her with $ 3 million as part of his will.

Madison, 35, said she found a copy of Hef’s will reflecting this.

“It was very clear to me that he’d left that out for me to see, because he was hoping it would change my mind and get me to stay,” she said.

“It just kinda disgusted me more than anything because all he can do is say, ‘Oh, here, I’m gonna throw you some money to get you to stay."”

“That just grossed me out.”

Despite his efforts to keep her there and the fame she achieved from the relationship, she decided that was the last straw. She was done.

“Hef and I started hitting kind of a rocky patch when it became clear that Bridget [Marquardt] and Kendra [Wilkinson] were leaving,” she said.

“They were moving on to new things. I just had enough and realized all these delusions I’d been under and that this was no longer the life for me.”

Speaking of Kendra, Wilkinson has called her “disgusting,” for making these claims now, saying she’s just desperate, bitter and vengeful.

K-Dubs also said on Kendra on Top this week that they were never friends, they just f–ked the same guy. Damn, that was some cold s–t.

Holly Madison "Disgusted" By Ex Hugh Hefner Putting Her In His Will! Find Out Why In This Revealing Oprah Interview Clip!

Holly Madison isn’t through with her giant, scathing Yelp review of her time spent at the Playboy mansion!

The reality star recently sat down with Oprah Winfrey on Saturday’s episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? and claimed that her ex Hugh Hefner tried to convince her to stay with him — by offering her money!

Related: Holly Madison Has ANOTHER Book Deal!

In the clip, the 35-year-old explained that after her Girls Next Door co-stars Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt decided to leave the house, it put a strain on her relationship with Hef. She said:

“Hef and I started hitting a rocky patch when it became clear that Bridget and Kendra were leaving, they were moving onto new things. I just had enough, and just had realized all the delusions I’d been under and that this was no longer the life for me.”

But after Holly decided to leave, the Playboy head honcho allegedly went through great lengths to get her to stay — even going as far as writing her into his will — something she was NOT cool with:

“I found on my side of the bed a folder that he left out, and in his will he left me $ 3 million. It was very clear that he left that out for me to see because he was hoping I would change my mind and get me to stay, but it just kind of disgusted me more than anything.”

Wow, we could only imagine! See what else the best selling author had to say in the clip (below)!

Kendra on Top Recap: Dirty Thirty, Holly Madison Edition!

Kendra Wilkinson celebrated the big 3-0 on Kendra on Top this week. But did she mark the occasion by cheating on husband Hank Baskett?!?

You can’t blame us for wondering, given that it’s the ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE SHOW … but no, it appears K-Dubs made it to Dirty 30 sans affairs.

Watch Kendra on Top Season 4 Episode 8 Online

On Kendra on Top Season 4 Episode 8, we began with Kendra on Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition. Yes, that is an actual show.

As she put it, she “started the day fighting with [Hank] about a gay bar and now I’m talking to Greg Brady about how he did Camp Playboy.”

“This day could not get any weirder.”

While she avoided elimination with a dope grilled cheese, Kendra was still feeling bummed out on her 30th birthday the following day.

But then … the best surprise ever!

Hank and Lil’ Hank came to visit, which truly made her day in spite of the fact that, well, she doesn’t like being caught off guard. At all.

“I’m so happy you guys made it out there, even though I hate surprises. Please don’t surprise me again,” Kendra tells her husband.

Yikes. Wait until she sees the car.

Those who watch Kendra on Top online know that Hank picked out a hot ride for his girl, also without her knowing. How’d that go over?

Let’s just say it was good and bad. She definitely did not hate that surprise, which was good. She was pretty darn excited to be honest.

The bad news? She kissed Hank on the mouth, which we know she’s not a fan of; Kendra has been open about this intimacy issue.

Still, the car gift and the birthday visit to the Worst Cooks set were a net positive, and things were looking up … until this bombshell:

Holly Madison has written a book!

Watch Kendra on Top Season 4 Episode 9 Online

In Down the Rabbit Hole, she alleges Kendra demanded a car, dental work and the biggest room, and is so fake, she “cultivated” her own laugh.

Among many other things. It’s harsh.

We can’t speak to the accuracy of those claims, but we can tell you that Holly Madison ripped Kendra pretty hard, and she was pissed.

Baskett shrugs the book off as a desperate ploy for attention, but Wilkinson was not about to toss it in the dustbin and move on with life.

Not when she can milk it for drama! fumes.

“All we really did was f–k the same man,” Kendra rages to BFF Jessica Hall. “Seven years later, this bi!ch is talking about sh!t when I was 18, 19, 20,”

Unlike Madison, Wilkinson has “zero regrets” about her time at the Mansion and says what a lot of us are probably thinking at least in part:

Is Madison really complaining about the very lifestyle that made her famous, then turning around and trashing Playboy for bitter revenge?

Really, Holly Madison?

While they clearly should just let it go, Kendra and Jessica are livid, and Kendra on Top Season 4 Episode 9 ends with a cliffhanger.

“Let’s go confront this bitch,” Wilkinson says, though it remains to be seen if she will actually come face to face with Madison over this.

One can hope.

Kendra Wilkinson SLAMS Holly Madison For Her "Absurd" Memoir — Says The Girls Next Door Weren"t Friends, They "Just F*cked The Same Man"!

We guess Kendra Wilkinson finally picked up Holly Madison‘s book — and she did NOT like what she read!

Earlier this year, the former Playboy model released her memoir Down the Rabbit Hole, which painted Kendra star in an “absurd” way, according to the reality star!

Related: Kendra Calls Out Holly For Lack Of Appreciation Of Playboy Past!

In the new Kendra On Top sneak peek, the 30-year-old sits down with a friend and reveals her thoughts on her frenemy’s tell-all book, saying:

“We were never friends. At the end of the day, what we did was we just f*cked the same man. That’s not friends.”

But they seemed so close on Girls Next Door! We guess sneaky reality TV editing is the real culprit here?

Though Miz Wilkinson-Baskett has a right to be hurt. In the book, Holly referred to Kendra as “the fakest person I’ve ever met,” to which she responded:

“Obviously, she’s trying to get the public to think different of me, which I am who I am. I’ve never faked sh*t a minute of my life.”

Sounds like the two have VERY different perceptions of what really went down in that mansion!

Check out the clip below to hear Kendra go OFF on her former housemate, and watch Kendra On Top Friday at 9pm ET on WEtv!

[Image via WEtv.]