United Kingdom, July 16 -- Crystal Harris "regrets" marrying Hugh Hefner and thinking their union meant she had "made it".

The 39-year-old beauty was wed to the late Playboy mogul from2 012 until his death in 2017 at the age of 91, and she wishes she had seen more clearly at the time the reality of the situation she found herself in.

In a candid video shared to Instagram, she said: "Do I regret marrying Hugh Hefner? Of course I do.

"I regret being in my mid-20s and thinking that marrying one of the most famous men in the world meant I had finally made it, that I finally mattered or had value.

"I regret the years I spent making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger. I regret learning to stay quiet when I could have spoken. I re...