Sometimes God uses the unlikeliest of vessels to lead us down the road to redemption and point us toward Him.
For Christian actress Andrea Logan White, those vessels were Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion.
While she’s now the wife of Christian filmmaker David A.R. White, and the co-owner of Pure Flix Entertainment, Andrea’s playmate past was far from the pure lifestyle she leads today.
The 39-year-old recently opened up to Fox Radio News about her journey from hopelessness in Hollywood to fulfillment in Christ that she details in her new book, Perfectly Unfinished.
The Chicago-area native was raised in a dysfunctional family, and it wasn’t until later on in adulthood that she realized how much she felt the need to carry the burden of her family as a child. The star of “Moms’ Night Out” explains that growing up in a broken home left her with a gaping void that she eventually looked to an eating disorder and Hollywood to fill.
“I was a champion at self-destruction,” says Andrea of her near-fatal battle with anorexia. “I inwardly was punishing myself, and was thinking there was something wrong with our family, something wrong with me.”
Oddly enough, once the aspiring model and actress moved to Hollywood, God used Hugh Hefner to start breaking her out of her destructive eating disorder.
“Funny enough though, looking back, Hef was always kind of a father figure in my life,” says Andrea. “I would go to their weekly dinners, and I was very thin at the time. I was dealing with relapsing in and out of anorexia, and so he would sit next to me and say, ‘If you wanna pose for Playboy, you need to eat your dinner.'”
Albeit a twisted motive to pose in a risque magazine, the young model felt a sort of fatherly love in Hef’s concern for her that she never experienced at home.
In fact, when she first started taking an interest in God, the Playboy mogul himself got her a limo to attend church.