Karissa Shannon is determined her son will never be like Hugh Hefner.
After sharing shocking details of her time as a Playboy Playmate, the Girls Next Door alum, 37, told Page Six on Thursday, November 5, that she was now engaged and pregnant with a boy.
She told the publication she wanted to use her past experience to teach her son, who she plans to name Genesis, to be “gentleman.”
“I want him to be opposite of whatever Hef was portraying,” Karissa told the outlet. “I want him to be a gentleman, and I want him to have manners, and I want him to lead with his heart.”
Karissa is keeping the identity of her fiancé private but revealed that he is a “simple, blue-collar guy” from Windsor, Ontario and praised him for being so supportive of her past.
“He’s sweet, and he loves me deeply and unconditionally. He’s quick to defend me in comments [on social media] and supports my career and all my projects. He’s proud of who I am,” she said.
Shannon’s comments about her parenting plans for her son come after she detailed eye-opening experiences with Hefner, who died in 2017 at age 91.
“He would try and force me and my sister [Kristina Shannon] to have sex with each other,” Karissa claimed to Page Six in an interview published on Wednesday, November 4. “Me and my sister never actually did it together. So that’s a statement I want to say. Like, really, we never, never had incest[uous] sex. Like, we never did that. We faked it.”
Hefner’s widow, Crystal Harris, previously accused her late husband of “starting to try and shove” Kristina and Karissa’s heads “onto each other’s vaginas to get them to engage with each other sexually.”
“That is incest. That is disgusting,” Harris, 40, claimed on the October 27 episode of the “Lisa Guerrero Unleashed” podcast. “I didn’t want them to have to do something like that with each other. So that was very, very hard.”
Karissa and Kristina both lived in the Playboy estate from the ages of 18 to 20, but they don’t see the experience as a positive one.
Speaking to Us in July 2025, Karissa shared what they would say to the magazine mogul if he was still alive and they had the opportunity.
“I would just ask him why he took advantage of us. We wouldn’t have to have a sit-down. I don’t think there’s an apology that he could issue [to] us that would take back the trauma that he’s done to us,” Karissa said at the time.
Echoing her sister’s sentiment, Kristina added, “[I would just say], ‘You really did f*** us up and take advantage of us.’ I’d be asking why he thought that was OK.”
