Kendra Wilkinson and Fiancé Ready to Start a Family

She's packed her bags, moved out of the Playboy mansion, wrapped up another season of The Girls Next Door and started filming her own reality show. Up next for Kendra Wilkinson? Walking down the aisle – and starting a family.

"We always talk about [having kids]," Wilkinson tells PEOPLE about her plans with fiancé Hank Baskett. "He wants kids so [badly], and I do, too."

The couple are so serious about children, they've even been coming up with names. "My first initial is K and my middle name is Leigh, so we were thinking of Kaleigh," she says. "And he's Hank Baskett III, so of course I'm going to have a Hank Baskett IV!"

Wilkinson, 23, whose engagement to Baskett, 26, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, took place in November. She will change her name to Kendra Baskett – because "we're old fashioned," she says – and is looking forward to having "modern but classic fairytale" wedding at the Playboy mansion in June, despite the fact she's "overwhelmed" with all the planning.


She'll Miss Hef
"It's going to be a wedding – not a Playboy mansion party," she insists, adding that the ceremony will take place in the front yard of the estate and that her brother (and not ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, as was previously reported) "will walk me down the aisle and give me away."

For the star of The Girls Next Door, whose season finale airs March 1 on E!, star, leaving the mansion has had both its ups and downs. For starters, she no longer has 24-hour butler and maid staff available. But more importantly, "I'll miss Hef the most," she says.

The upside of her new life? "That I'm engaged, of course!"

"These five years of my life at the Playboy mansion just went by so fast," Wilkinson says. "I've changed in positive ways. I think people were thinking I was going to take the wrong turn, go crazy, be a party girl and just go downhill. Instead, I'm settling down – but at the same time, I do want to still have fun!"

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Could you imagine little Kendra's running around...

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Oh Jesus...I cannot picture her as a mom.....

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I honestly don't think that girl is one ounce mature enough to be a mom yet.

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Eh, I'll give 'er the benefit of the doubt. I like to take into consideration that these shows like to create "characters" by editing so who knows? Maybe she has grown up?

I really haven't heard much negative press about her so maybe it's possible?

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If Nicole Richie can go from a heroin addict to seemingly hands-on mom, I suppose Kendra could give it a shot too.

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Could you imagine little Kendra's running around...

Re: Kendra Wilkinson and Fiancé Ready to Start a Family

am i the only idiot who actually liked her?

she's ditsy/dumb, yes - and maybe that's how she really is, or maybe it was an act for the show. either way she seemed to be a fun, nice person - what was wrong with that?

and if being a party animal in her "past life" would make her a bad mom... maybe i should have thought twice before having kids too!

Re: Kendra Wilkinson and Fiancé Ready to Start a Family

No I always liked her too - she has that whole dumb / ditz act but I actually thought she might be the coolest to hang out with.....I can see her settling down and having a family...she is sort of Jenny McCarthy-ish IMO.

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Oh lord. I just can't picture her being a mother. She seems like she can't even walk and chew gum at the same time.