Meet the new Crystal Hefner! How Playboy boss Hugh Hefner’s widow ditched her breast implants, deleted her racy Instagram pics, got a new boyfriend … and bought a farm in Hawaii
- The new love of Crystal’s life is TV celebrity Ryan Malaty, the Egyptian-American who rose to fame after appearing on reality show Are You The One?
- The magazine magnate excluded his former wife from his will – but bought her a US$5 million West Hollywood mansion and gave her US$7 million in cash
Former Playboy Playmate and model-turned-traveller Crystal Hefner shared a modest black-and-white photo on Instagram recently, telling her millions of followers that she had “deleted all my old photos” and “removed everything fake from my body” as part of her new journey.
She also admitted to her fans that she believes her massive following on social media during her heyday was because of her racy photos: “Certain photos grow followings fast. In short, sex sells.”
So what exactly is this personal transformation she’s undergone? Here are a few facts about her journey.
She met Hugh Hefner at 22 – and he was 60 years older than her
Crystal married Hugh, 60 years her senior, on New Year’s Eve in 2012 at the age of 26 – four years after first meeting him at his infamous Halloween party. She was named Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in December 2009 and, a year later on Christmas Eve, they announced their engagement. However, she called it off in June 2011, five days before their planned wedding, blaming it on cold feet. The couple reconciled in June 2012.
After his passing, Crystal told People magazine that Hugh gave her direction and taught her kindness: “He changed my life, he saved my life. He made me feel loved every single day.”
Crystal has also appeared in E!’s reality series The Girls Next Door and remains the vice-president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation.