A scary fact about parenthood is that children are looking to you to learn how to live. Everything you do is being observed, even how you talk about your weight. Holly Madison wants her two kids to learn to love their bodies. She is making a conscious choice to make sure her language reflects this.
The former Playboy model is a mother of two. She shares Rainbow, 11, and Forest, 7, with ex-husband Pasquale Rotella. She wants to make sure they grow up with healthy body images.
"We're really focused on healthy eating. I'm really careful not to say anything about dieting or weight or anything in front of my kids," Holly explained to Us Weekly. "If they're trying to shove something unhealthy in front of me, I just say, 'Oh, I'm doing a health thing.'"
Holly is doing this because when she was her daughter’s age she was "already trying to look some sort of way." She does not want her daughter to focus on this. Instead she wants her daughter to "value the things she enjoys and that she's passionate about."
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"We don't want her to get into the mode where she's really focused on the way she looks, or trying to get attention for the way she looks or validation through that," Holly explained. Holly believes her efforts are paying off. "She's on a better track than I was at that age for sure," she added.
Holly, who was once in a relationship with the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has worked hard to tell her side of the story and take back her power. She released a tell-all memoir in 2016 entitled Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. She confessed that her time at the Playboy Mansion gave her body dysmorphia and she doesn't want her children to experience that.
