An Unofficial Biography: Holly Madison

For those not entirely familiar with the beautifully blonde Holly Madison. She's a model, reality television celebrity and most importantly, Hugh Hefner's number one girl. Along side of the sportish beauty, Kendra Wilkinson and the festively sophisticated beauty of Bridget, the three of them take on life at the Playboy Mansion every sunday night on E! with their reality series, "The Girls Next Door".

Holly Madison was born on December 23, 1979 in Astoria, Oregon. Shortly after being born, her family packed up their belongings and moved to Prince of Wales Island which can be found on a map as being located in Alaska. It was in Alaska that Holly spent the majority of her youth reading Nancy Drew mysteries, playing in the woods and watching bears rummage amongst her and her family's garbage. Definitely not the typical childhood but eventually Holly's parents moved their family back to Oregon when Holly was in middle school.

After high school, Holly discovered that she had a true knack for acting. She eventually enrolled herself into Portland State University and majored in theatre and psychology. However, it was frequent visits to Disneyland that really led Holly to fall in love for the warm climate and atmosphere of Southern California. After two years at Portland State University, Holly ended up transferring to Loyola Marymount University located in Los Angeles, California.

Being just a typical college student and finding out that the cost of education and general living in California was rather expensive, Holly found herself working two jobs to pay her own way. One job being a roller skating waitress at a Santa Monica Hooters restaurant and the other job being a model for Hawaiian Tropics.

As her time as far as being a waitress at Hooters progressed, Holly would always over hear fellow co-workers talk about all of the parties that they'd attend at the extremely famous Playboy Mansion. Holly found herself being so caught up in the hype of their words that when one of Hef's friends spotted her modeling in a Hawaiian Tropics contest and placed her amongst the Mansion's guest list, she was ecstatic.