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After Kendra Wilkinson had just given birth to her second child with husband Hank Baskett, their marriage was rocked by a sex scandal that threatened to tear them apart.
One year later, the former Playboy playmate is speaking out about how she and her husband are back on track following his alleged affair, and why divorce was “not even a question.”
Though she admits there were “tough times,” Wilkinson, 30, was determined to work through her trust issues with Baskett, 32, and knows that her children – Hank IV, 5, and Alijah, 13 months – will be better off for it.
“Of course everybody’s going to go through tough times in life. It’s how you deal with it,” the reality star tells PEOPLE Now, adding that her children see how in love and happy their parents are.
“Right now, Hank and I are in the best place. … We’re a happy family. One day, they’re going to know that we went through some struggles, but they’re going to be proud of us for sticking through those struggles, right? That’s all that matters.”
Adds Wilkinson, “Giving up our marriage and giving up our friendship and our love for each other is not even a question. It’s not even a real thing, you know? We fight for each other.”
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Having recently celebrated her 30th birthday, Wilkinson tells PEOPLE that between her time in the Playboy mansion, getting married and having children, “I lived the best twenties I could have ever lived.”
She says she’s entering a new decade a more forgiving person: “I feel very special entering my thirties now knowing the true definition of forgiveness. never knew what forgiveness meant until now, and I think that’s the most powerful feeling that I’ve ever felt in my life.”
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For more from Kendra and Hank, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday