Barry Bonds' ex-mistress details star's steroid use, temper
Kimberly Bell will be featured in the November issue of Playboy.
'When you're dealing with somebody who's that selfish, with that kind of ego, you learn to exaggerate your reactions to make him feel better,' Bell said of Bonds' performance in bed.
In the days before he became violent, in the days before he threatened to chop off Kimberly Bell's head and leave her body in a ditch, Barry Bonds would stand in front of a mirror and fret about how steroids were changing his body.
His body had grown thicker, his back was pocked with acne, his hair had fallen out and his testicles had shriveled when Bonds asked his former mistress if she thought anyone would suspect he was on the juice.
"Do I look bloated?" Bonds wanted to know. "Does it look funny? Do you think this is obvious?"
It sure did, Bell told the Daily News during a wide-ranging interview to promote her six-page nude pictorial and in-depth article in the November issue of Playboy, which goes on sale at newsstands on Friday.
But nobody - Major League Baseball officials, San Francisco Giants' brass, teammates or even trainers - ever challenged the home run king.
"I don't see how anyone could not have known, but everybody looked the other way," said Bell, who claims the slugger admitted using the juice to her in 1999. "He surrounds himself with yes people. I don't think he ever considered where this would lead, and as long as he was selling tickets, the Giants were going to cater to him."
Bell catered to Bonds, too: She tells Playboy he was no All-Star in the bedroom. "When you're dealing with somebody who's that selfish, with that kind of ego, you learn to exaggerate your reactions to make him feel better," she said, or as the skin mag put it, she faked it.
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