Photo: Holly Madison / CC0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Holly Madison is more compelling to me than her tabloid framing ever allowed. Rising to fame inside the Playboy Mansion and on The Girls Next Door, she could have remained a glossy footnote, but she instead became one of the more candid chroniclers of that world from the inside. Knowing she came from tiny Astoria, Oregon, and attended Portland State, I read a sharper, more grounded person than the persona suggested. I admire anyone who can live at the center of a spectacle and later describe its machinery honestly. That willingness to tell the unglamorous truth is, to me, her real distinction.
Overview
Holly Madison (born Hollin Sue Cullen; December 23, 1979) is an American television personality, actress and model best known as a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner and for her appearance in the reality television show The Girls Next Door. She also starred in her own reality series, Holly's World, which ran from 2009 to 2011.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Holly Madison
- Name (Japanese)
- ホリー・マディソン
- Reading
- ほりー・までぃそん
- Born
- December 23, 1979 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Goat
- Origin
- Astoria, Oregon, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television personality / showgirl / reality television participant / model
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- St. Helens High School
- University
- Portland State University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.