FORMER Playboy playmates and twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon claim they are still suffering from trauma years after the death of magazine founder and ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner in 2017.
Karissa and Kristina moved into the infamous Playboy mansion in 2008 - when they were just 19 as Hefner’s new girlfriends.
In an interview with PEOPLE magazine at the weekend, the sisters say they were bullied by the other ladies in the house.
In the tell-all piece, Kristina said: “We didn't know much about fashion or style. And we're a lot younger than Bridget [Marquardt], Kendra [Wilkinson] and Holly [Madison] - we're teenagers.
Karissa chimed in to add: “We got a lot of jealousy from the other Playmates because we were twins.
“We were the first twins to each get our own months, which made history. We were the youngest Playmates and the youngest girlfriends.”
After moving out following an 18-month stay with Hefner, they feared that they would suffer the same fate as former playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 39 in 2007.
Kristina reveals that they had to turn their lives around when in 2014, she was cited for driving under the influence after the pair began struggled with weight gain, pills and alcohol.
She recalls: “Everyone was saying we were going through our ‘Anna Nicole phase’. We gained weight. There was alcohol and pills. We were really unhealthy and lost and, even at points, suicidal.
“We had no one. It was just us, trying to figure it out after losing ourselves.”