She might not have been put through any Bushtucker Trials yet in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2014, but Kendra Wilkinson has definitely gone through the mill this year.
The American reality star, who rose to fame on E!’s The Girls Next Door, which followed the lives of the Bunnies living in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, has been in the Australian jungle since Sunday, leaving behind her newly unseparated husband, Hank Baskett, and two children – Hank Junior and baby Alijah.
Earlier this summer, Kendra and Hank almost separated after she heard he had cheated on her while she was pregnant with their six-month-old daughter, but as she told this week’s Us magazine, she’s ready to forgive him.
“I was cold, alone, scared, sad, confused,” she explained. “My hormones still weren't okay after having the baby. I was having postpartum blues and this just made it worse. I would cry myself to sleep every night... I couldn't control my rage. It became very volatile between us.”
She even took drastic measures by flushing all her rings down the toilet – including her wedding ring.
“I don't regret that for a minute. Best feeling I ever had,” she told the magazine.
As for Hank, the former NFL player said he was incredibly worried Kendra, 29, would end up divorcing him after a transgender model claimed to have had a sexual encounter with him.
“I had trouble thinking of the right thing to say the right way, especially in a situation like this, where it’s your word against someone else’s,” he said. “One wrong word and I could lose everything.”
But Kendra is now willing to move on from her year of hell, and no doubt will have plenty of time to miss her family while she’s in the jungle.
“We have talked. I know the truth. All I can say is that I believe Hank. I love Hank. And he's proven to me that he's worth forgiving and fighting for,” she added.
GALLERY: The WORST Bushtucker Trials EVER!
I'm A Celebrity 2014: The WORST Bushtucker Trials EVER!
1 of 8Dean Gaffney (2006)
Ex-EastEnder Dean Gaffney showed off his impressive ability to yelp like an injured animal in his 2006 trial. To be fair to the man, he did have cockroaches poured on his head, put his hands in a box of biting ants and retrieve a star from a pool of baby crocodiles.
2 of 8Gino D’Acampo (2009)
“I think I’ve got to eat some kind of weird stuff,” commented Gino when he was told he was going to do a Bushtucker Bonanza. Yep, we guess that a fermented egg, a rhino beetle, cockroach, wittchedy grub, mealworms, beach worms and crocodile tongue might be considered ‘weird’.
3 of 8Jennie Bond (2004)
Alone, wet, cold and covered with rats. Not a situation we’d like to get in any time soon, but former Royal correspondent Jennie Bond managed to last a whole 10 minutes locked in a water and rat filled coffin by humming an upbeat tune. We salute you, Ms. Bond.
4 of 8Joey Essex (2013)
Locked in a cold, dark, slimy tomb, we’d be freaking out if we were Joey in his 2013 task. But the TOWIE star powered through and managed to find all twelve hidden stars without uttering a single scream, only stopping to moan ‘This is definitely, 100% not reem,’ and to comment that the rodents were biting his ‘middle parts’.
5 of 8Mark Wright and Freddie Starr (2011)
TOWIE’s Mark and hamster-eating comedian Freddie were an oddly matched pair for the ‘Greasy Spoon Café’ culinary battle, but the resulting Bushtucker trial has to be one of our faves. The couple was challenged to dine on a spoiled egg, blended cockroaches, mealworms and mouse tails, turkey testicles, a camel’s toe and a pigs anus.
6 of 8Martina Navratilova (2008)
Tennis pro Martina impressed us all when she shared a plastic bubble helmet with a variety of jungle critters, including grasshoppers, cockroaches, stick insects, spiders and snakes. While we shuddered and hid behind our hands, Martina took it like a champ.
7 of 8Matt Willis (2006)
Poor Matt Willis proved he’s no wimp when he munched his way to victory in his Bushtucker Bonanza challenge of 2006. The McBusted star dined out on live mealworms, witchetty grubs, a kangaroo anus and a crocodile penis. Mr Willis managed the whole lot without a single retch, commenting after ‘I’ve got kangaroo anus in my teeth. It’s a really good look.’
8 of 8Kim Woodburn (2009)
Kim was submerged in a tank under water, while thousands of cockroaches and other critters were poured on her. As much as we did feel for clean freak Kim, her screeches of "Something’s nipping my bosoms" and "It's bitten my bum!" made this trial a timeless classic.