Bridget Marquardt

Bridget Marquardt (born September 25, 1973) is an American television personality best known for her role in the reality TV series The Girls Next Door. The show depicted her life as one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's girlfriends. Although not a Playboy Playmate, Marquardt has appeared in nude pictorials with her Girls Next Door co-stars Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson. Born Bridget Christina Sandmeier in Tillamook, Oregon, Marquardt was raised in California after her mother moved the family there shortly after her birth. She attended Galt High School and transferred to Lodi High School, graduating in 1990. Marquardt later graduated from San Joaquin Delta College with an associate's degree.