Holly Madison

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.

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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)

Origin

Astoria, Oregon, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

television personality / showgirl / reality television participant / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

High school

St. Helens High School

University

Portland State University

• Official sitehttps://hollymadison.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hollymadison/
• Xhttps://x.com/hollymadison
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Madison
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229948

Tags

• Oregon
• television personality
• showgirl
• reality television participant

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.