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EXCLUSIVE: Bridget Marquardt Moves Out of Playboy Mansion
Friday January 9, 2009

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Hugh Hefner and Bridget Marquardt attend the official 2008 ESPY Awards Kick-off Party on July 14, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Bridget Marquardt has moved out of the Playboy Mansion, she confirms to Usmagazine.com.

Hugh Hefner's exes Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson left in October.

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"I was actually thinking about it for awhile," Marquardt tells Us Friday. "It's unrelated to Holly and Kendra moving out. Hef and I have a really special relationship. This all has nothing to do with my feelings for Hef. I care about him very much. It's just a good time for me to become my own person.

"I just finished packing most of everything late Tuesday night. It was actually really emotional for me to be standing in my room. It was completely empty."

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How did Hef take the news?

"Hef was encouraging me. He said, 'You can do what you want, do what makes you happy.'"

As for where the Girl Next Door will be living now that she's out of Hef's home, she's still uncertain.

"I'm going to be homeless!" Marquardt says, laughing. "I'm a gypsie!"

She's currently filming a Travel Channel show, Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, which will keep her out of the country most days until shooting ends mid-April. She added that when she is in town, she'll likely be staying in hotels, with friends or even bunking at the Playboy mansion until she finds a place.

"I'm welcome anytime," she tells Us. "It's an open door for me. [Hef said] "if you have a date you want to bring to the mansion, I'm supportive of that.'"

Whenever she gets her new bachelorette pad, she plans to install a trapeze bar and a stripper pole in her bedroom.

"It's nothing sexual!" Marquardt says. "I love trapeze, and wherever I live won't have a full unit outside, so I'll put a bar in my house. I'm going to have a trapeze bar in one corner and a stripper pole in the other corner, and people are going to say, 'Oh, she's kinky!' but it's really a good workout."

Long before her move, Marquardt was sure she'd be following in her old roommates' footsteps soon.

"I don't know how much longer I'll be there," she told Us at a Playboy fragrance launch in October.

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Hefner is currently dating 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.

"I just hope their hearts are in the right place and that he's happy," Marquardt tells Us.

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