Crystal Hefner stopped posting these pictures after leaving Playboy Mansion

It was not picture-perfect.

After her “traumatic” experience of living at the Playboy Mansion, Crystal Hefner stopped showing skin in the photos she shared with the world.

“I have no bikini pictures on my social media,” she reveals in her new tell-all, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” which was released on Jan. 23.

“I am not defined by my body or my looks. My worth is not determined by how many people like my bikini picture on social media.”

After being married to Hugh Hefner and living in the Playboy mansion for close to a decade, the blonde beauty refrained from posting images of herself in a bathing suit — but that all changed this year.

“Yeah, I finally did. I did a New Year’s Eve trip to St. Barts and I posted one on there [Instagram], but it feels a little bit weird,” the former Playboy Bunny and centerfold told The Post.

Crystal realized that while she was immersed in the Playboy world, she contributed to her late husband’s objectification of women by posting superficial things on Instagram.

“I was creating ads and posting about teeth whitening and Skinny Bunny Tea and all this stuff. And, you know, I was part of the problem,” she explained.

“I was posting in bathing suits and I was part of contributing to the misogynistic culture, absolutely. But coming out of that, I get away from it as much as possible.”

There was also a photographer at the lavish 5-acre Los Angeles property each day — who would take shots of Crystal, whether she was camera-ready or not.

“Yes, she was there every day . . . I’m getting my food and I’m just trying to eat. And the camera’s here so that I would just, like, pull faces,” she said.

Crystal, 37, married the Playboy founder in 2012 when she was 26 and he was 86, and was with him until his death at 91 in 2017.

The Californian, who moved into the Playboy Mansion at 21 after meeting Hef at a Halloween party at the mansion, said that “after five years of therapy” she realized it was time to share her story.

“I feel that I owed it to the people that followed Hef and I that 10 years that I was in the mansion,” she said.

“We had a lot of fans and some fans turned into friends, and I just felt that I owed it to them and to the world to share my perspective.”

In the book, she didn’t hold back — even when it came to describing her first night in the mansion — complete with three other women, pornographic videos, baby oil, and no condoms in sight — and has no regrets about spilling the X-rated details.

“I don’t feel I shared too much. I feel that the Playboy Mansion is known for sex and excess, and that’s part of the story,” she said.

“And when I was at the mansion, I felt uneasy, anxiety, on eggshells. But now that I’m removed from it, I have nothing to hide. I have nothing that can be taken away from me. So here it is.”

She hopes that it will inspire young, impressionable women to stand up for their beliefs.

“I wish it was the book that I had when I was 21 going into the mansion,” she said.

“I didn’t really have a sense of self, and I think that’s important to have a sense of self or else that can be dictated by other people. And when that is dictated by other people, it can be given to you and also taken away.”