Top 50 Holly Madison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m happy single, but I’m happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I’m more successful when I’m single.”

— Holly Madison

2. “I don’t need a man. I’m really happy with myself and being with my friends.”

— Holly Madison

3. “I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.”

— Holly Madison

4. “I’m a curvy girl and that will never change.”

— Holly Madison

5. “I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.”

— Holly Madison

6. “I work hard and I don’t come from a rich family.”

— Holly Madison

7. “I moved on from the whole ‘Playboy’ thing five years ago and really never looked back. I’m not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.”

— Holly Madison

8. “I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that’s what I’m doing.”

— Holly Madison

9. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

— Holly Madison

10. “Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.”

— Holly Madison

11. “I’d rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I’m proud of my body.”

— Holly Madison

12. “If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won’t happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.”

— Holly Madison

13. “Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it’s going to work. I think really positively.”

— Holly Madison

14. “I don’t want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.”

— Holly Madison

15. “My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don’t want to just be known for being involved in ‘Playboy,’ or having been Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend – I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That’s my main motivation.”

— Holly Madison

16. “I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for ‘Extra,’ and now it’s become full time.”

— Holly Madison

17. “I love Snooki. She’s a pickle sucker!”

— Holly Madison

18. “I want to get into producing. I really learned a lot from ‘Girls Next Door.’ Kevin Burns is a great producer. He’s really talented, and he taught me a lot. I’m just looking forward to spreading the wings a little bit. Five seasons on ‘Girls Next Door’ was great, but it gets a little repetitive.”

— Holly Madison

19. “Like Beauty locked up in the Beast’s castle, I developed my own brand of Stockholm syndrome, identifying with my captor.”

— Holly Madison

20. “Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes.”

— Holly Madison

21. “I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I’m not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I’m a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.”

— Holly Madison

22. “I’m working on producing my own shows. “Girls Next Door” was a great place to start but it was somebody else’s show. I’m just ready to move on.”

— Holly Madison

23. “I have a treadmill in my house, which is great because even if I jump on it for a little bit, it makes me feel better. I love yoga and Pilates too. I have a private Pilates instructor I go to once a week.”

— Holly Madison

24. “This old man had just humiliated me – and I sat there taking his ridicule like a child. I curled up on the vanity stool and sobbed for what felt like forever, in the one little corner of this whole giant mansion that was supposed to be my own.”

— Holly Madison

25. “Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.”

— Holly Madison

26. “I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don’t and I’m just standing there with nothing to do.”

— Holly Madison

27. “I want six kids. We’ll see how it goes, but I want a big family.”

— Holly Madison

28. “I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in ‘Peepshow.’ Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.”

— Holly Madison

29. “Aside from performing in ‘Peepshow,’ I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I’m more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don’t get bored or distracted.”

— Holly Madison

30. “I’ve always wanted to be a mom.”

— Holly Madison

31. “When I received my glossy black invitation in the mail a few days later, I could feel my heart swell with excitement. “Hef’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Party,” it read. On the front was a beautiful pinup illustration by famed artist Olivia De Berardinis and inside was a small piece of paper with directions. It was like Cinderella finally scoring an invitation to the ball – except instead of arriving by horse-drawn carriage, we would board a shuttle at a UCLA parking garage.”

— Holly Madison

32. “You don’t have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant – you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!”

— Holly Madison

33. “Since I’ve been pregnant, I’ve lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald’s junkie and now I don’t like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I’ve really lost my taste for it.”

— Holly Madison

34. “The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It’s not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.”

— Holly Madison

35. “After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I’ve found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too.”

— Holly Madison

36. “I would love to meet my soul mate. I’m always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.”

— Holly Madison

37. “I wouldn’t mind doing Playboy again. But only if I had creative control.”

— Holly Madison

38. “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

— Holly Madison

39. “I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.”

— Holly Madison

40. “But when you have a baby inside you, you’re like ‘Whoa!’ Anything can happen here, I’ve got to give this baby all the nutrients it needs and really take care of myself, so this is definitely the healthiest I’ve ever been in my life.”

— Holly Madison

41. “Maybe I wasn’t defined by the mistakes I had made after all... maybe those decisions were what allowed me to become the person I was always destined to be.”

— Holly Madison

42. “I won’t apologize for the choices I made, because all of them brought me to the wonderful place I am today.”

— Holly Madison

43. “I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.”

— Holly Madison

44. “I wish ghosts were real!”

— Holly Madison

45. “I love performing in Las Vegas.”

— Holly Madison

46. “I’m not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I’d love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.”

— Holly Madison

47. “That’s one of the things about Hef: when it came to humiliating his girlfriends, the larger the audience, the better.”

— Holly Madison

48. “In a few short months, I had gone from a friendly, optimistic, confident woman to a confused girl with a nervous stammer who second-guessed every thought that went through her head and rationalized every bad decision she made.”

— Holly Madison

49. “I don’t know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn’t think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.”

— Holly Madison

50. “I loved my new friends, but they were just that: new. I was still rushing around to find more, more, more to bring into my orbit, things that could fill the hole inside that came from having lost touch with old friends and lacking a solid emotional foundation underneath me.”

— Holly Madison