BEING Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend – or ex-girlfriend even – seems to be a sure ticket to stardom.

Along with Bridget Marquadt, these Playboy bunnies prove they can hop on to bigger things even after the relationship ends.

Kendra Wilkinson, 24

The buxom blonde admitted to having breast implants when she was 18.

She first met Hefner in 2004 and moved into the Playboy Mansion the following year.

Wilkinson – who is 1.63m and whose measurements are reportedly 34D-24-32 – moved out last November and is the first ex-girlfriend to land her own reality TV series titled Kendra.

Centred on her living on her own, the show was the highest-rated series debut on the E! Entertainment television channel since The Anna Nicole Show in 2002 when it premiered in June, reported Entertainment Weekly.

In January this year, the former cheerleader confessed to cheating on Hefner during her four-year stay at the mansion.

She told magazine Us Weekly that she snuck out for the occasional rendezvous, adding: “I had to have it so I could feel my age, like a healthy human being.”

But her tell-all didn’t sit well with her former sugar daddy, from whom the girls reportedly received a weekly allowance of $1,400.

An apologetic Wilkinson told E! News: “I’m really bad at interviews and anyone who knows me knew I meant no harm. I’m a goofball. Mostly, I’m very sorry to have hurt Hef. Playboy made me who I am and Hef has done more for me than anyone else.”

All’s well and they’ve since made up. Wilkinson even held her wedding with football player Hank Baskett at the mansion in June.

The newly-weds are expecting their first child on Christmas Day and have named Hefner as their unborn son’s godfather.

According to US blogger Perez Hilton, the baby will be named Hank Baskett IV after his father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

Hefner and his new girlfriends also attended Wilkinson’s baby shower in September.

Holly Madison, 30

While waiting tables at US restaurant Hooters, which is famed for its scantily clad waitresses, she caught Hefner’s attention and moved into the mansion in 2001.

She became Hefner’s No 1 girl and even moved into his bedroom, a gesture that sealed her status as his top girlfriend.

The 1.65m-tall Madison also persuaded Hefner to allow her to augment her 34A chest to a 36D in 2001.

The 30-year-old bombshell was the first to announce her break-up with Hefner last October.

This was probably the result of the mogul announcing that Madison, who had said she would like to marry him and have his children, could never be his wife.

During last year’s Playmate of the Year luncheon, he explained: “I love Holly very much... but marriage isn’t part of my puzzle. It’s not a personal thing; I just haven’t had much luck with marriages.”

Soon after Madison left the mansion, she began dating illusionist Criss Angel but they split up in February this year.

Madison, now starring in casino resort Planet Hollywood Las Vegas’ topless burlesque Peepshow, recently inked a deal to star in her own reality TV show Planet Holly. It will revolve around her life at Planet Hollywood.

She was also recently a contestant on the eighth season of US dance reality TV series Dancing With The Stars.

This article was first published in The New Paper.