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Pamela Anderson’s story is far more complex than her sex symbol image suggests. From her early rise to global fame and controversial headlines to her battles for agency, activism, and a bold new comeback, Anderson has constantly defied expectations. Join us as we explore how she challenged cultural ideals, overcame public backlash, reinvented herself with authenticity, and ultimately reclaimed her narrative.
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00:00You want to tell the story of being discovered?
00:02Uh, yeah.
00:04You know the story of Galatea, right?
00:07No?
00:08She was created as the image of the perfect woman
00:10by a sculptor named Pygmalion
00:13and given life by Aphrodite as a gift to the artist.
00:17Even if you don't know the names, though,
00:19you can probably connect the myth to its real-world parallels.
00:23Oh, yeah, that's her.
00:24Mr. Vick.
00:26Nice work.
00:28Ow!
00:28My God, I am good.
00:31Culture, which has traditionally operated through a male lens,
00:35creates the ideal of a woman
00:36and deems her lovable when she embodies those ideals.
00:41But what about the woman who sculpts herself?
00:43Who has a mind and spirit that can't be contained
00:46within such limited parameters?
00:48Well, that's where things usually get messy.
00:51For the woman, that is.
00:52You know, jump on the bandwagon.
00:53Everyone's making fun of us.
00:55Making fun?
00:55What are you talking about?
00:57We just don't know what to make of someone
00:59who refuses to stay in the mold we've created for them,
01:02especially if her looks personify the mold.
01:05Pamela Anderson knows this struggle better than most.
01:08May we talk briefly about your breasts?
01:12What are they?
01:12Who are they?
01:14Those things I'm just tagging along with?
01:16Since her first brush with fame in 1989,
01:19people have tried to put her in one category or another.
01:21But her consistent refusal to stay put
01:24has inspired no small amount of backlash.
01:27She has been ridiculed.
01:28She has been condemned.
01:30And today, we're looking at how Pamela Anderson
01:32has been misrepresented.
01:35The cultural gaze does, of course,
01:37play some part in Anderson's success.
01:40In fact, when she was just a pretty local girl
01:42wearing a Labatt's beer t-shirt
01:44at a BC Lions football game,
01:46that gaze was magnetically pulled to her.
01:48And she found herself featured on the Jumbotron.
01:51I looked up and I was like,
01:53oh my God, that's me.
01:54That's the story.
01:55I didn't even recognize myself at first.
01:57But they ended up pulling me down the 50-yard line
02:00at halftime, interviewing me.
02:01And they're like, what's your name, young lady?
02:02And I said, I'm Pamela Anderson.
02:04And they said, this is Pamela Anderson,
02:05the Blue Zone girl,
02:06because I had Blue Zone on my shirt.
02:08The brief exposure led to spokesmodel work with Labatt's
02:11appearing on posters and billboards
02:13and in a TV commercial for the brand.
02:16And that got someone else's attention.
02:18This woman says, it's Marilyn Grabowski from Playboy
02:20and we want you to be on some cover.
02:22And I was like, Playboy?
02:26And she goes, yes, we've been looking all over the world
02:28for this October 89 cover
02:30and we think it should be you.
02:32So in 1989, at just 22,
02:35Pamela Anderson made her way from Vancouver, Canada
02:38to Los Angeles and the infamous Playboy Mansion.
02:42Already, this is a point that would raise eyebrows for some.
02:45The magazine's salacious content
02:47makes the women who appear on its pages
02:50easy targets for moral speculation,
02:53especially following a conservative cultural shift
02:55during the U.S.'s Reagan era.
02:57If this nation can send men to the moon,
03:00then we can certainly do some cleaning up here at home.
03:03To a puritanical mindset,
03:05a woman who poses nude either suffers from a deficient character
03:08or from an unspeakable tragedy
03:10that forces her to sell herself in desperation.
03:12It's wild. You come here from a small town.
03:15I was by myself, no family, no anything,
03:17really no business, you know, background.
03:20And just now, just looking, seeing
03:22all these people are making so much money.
03:24I'm not the one making the money.
03:26Believe me, I wish I was.
03:27Unfortunately, Pamela Anderson was not a stranger to tragedy,
03:31having endured sexual assault on more than one occasion.
03:35But the way she tells it,
03:36her decision to appear in Playboy
03:38was not a symptom of her trauma,
03:40but a reaction against it.
03:41When I got to that first Playboy photo shoot,
03:44I just said, like,
03:45why am I so freaking paralyzed by the shyness?
03:48I'm so sick of all this past
03:50that's created this insecurity in me.
03:53It's like a prison.
03:55I have to break out of it.
03:56Flipping the script on the victim narrative,
03:58Anderson found freedom in modeling,
04:00and for the first time in many years,
04:02felt agency over her body.
04:04I felt empowered by it.
04:06I felt like a woman.
04:07I felt like I had claimed my sensuality,
04:10my sexuality,
04:12that this was my body,
04:13and I was in control.
04:15In the spirit of taking back her self-ownership,
04:18Anderson began to mold herself,
04:20quite literally.
04:21While the powers that be at Playboy
04:22were more than content with her physical attributes,
04:25Pamela herself marveled at the bodies of her fellow models.
04:28I remember being in a gym at Playboy at the mansion
04:30and looking around at these women going,
04:32God, look at the bodies on these women.
04:35I mean, this is just incredible.
04:36I remember when I was with Kimberly Hefner
04:38and she was married to Hefner.
04:40She said, well, you know,
04:41they all had surgery.
04:42And I was like, really?
04:44Where do I sign up?
04:46Her decision to augment her bust size
04:48was not a revolutionary one.
04:50However, her open admission of it
04:51seemed to completely baffle people.
04:54They weren't that newsworthy,
04:55but I was just pretty naive.
04:58And I think at the time,
05:00it was pretty nervy to say the truth.
05:02When someone asked me, I said, yeah.
05:04As unique as she was in her candor,
05:06the topic probably would have exhausted itself
05:08if she'd remained just a centerfold.
05:11The era's hypocritical disapproval of plastic surgery
05:14was not far removed from its opinions
05:16regarding nude modeling.
05:18Critical outsiders could have resolved her choices
05:20into what they considered a reprehensible
05:22but logical consistency.
05:24There it is.
05:25That's that happy superior face
05:27because we love Jesus more than anybody.
05:30Anderson wasn't content to remain
05:31down the rabbit hole, though.
05:33Between her appearances in Playboy
05:35and her charismatic personality,
05:37opportunity was starting to knock.
05:39And she already envisioned bigger things for herself.
05:42May 21st, 1991.
05:45I'm making a plan of action for my career now.
05:48I think I stood back too long.
05:50This is my time to shine.
05:53Not as a sex symbol, but as an actress.
05:56After a few one-off appearances,
05:58Anderson scored a small recurring role
06:01as Lisa the Tool Time Girl on the sitcom Home Improvement,
06:04but it didn't give her very much to play with.
06:07So when she was offered the part of lifeguard CJ Parker
06:10on the series Baywatch, she dove right in.
06:13With her limited acting experience,
06:15Pamela Anderson would be the first to admit
06:17her performance wasn't destined to win any awards.
06:20Similarly, Baywatch wasn't a show
06:22anyone took very seriously.
06:24I don't really take it too personally.
06:26I really don't.
06:27I don't really attach myself to it
06:29because it's bizarre.
06:32There's a lot of things that I really love to do.
06:34And I think there are a lot of things
06:35that I am very talented at,
06:37but that's not acting.
06:39So I'm kind of just going,
06:40whoa, okay, I've got everybody fooled.
06:42The series still became a massive hit,
06:44not just in the US, but around the world.
06:46And Anderson, with her undeniable star quality,
06:50was its most popular cast member.
06:52I'm walking up a plane into Twilight Zone
06:53because everyone just chases you down the streets.
06:56And CJ, CJ, and it's amazing.
06:59It's amazing, the fans.
07:00After becoming one of the most recognizable women
07:02on the planet,
07:03Pamela Anderson also became one of its busiest.
07:06Not only was she acting and modeling,
07:08but she started to get into business ventures,
07:11like a partial ownership
07:12in the LA nightlife spot sanctuary.
07:14It was there that she crossed paths
07:17with Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee
07:19for the first time.
07:20I gave everyone a Goldschlager shot to celebrate,
07:22but Tommy thought it was only for him.
07:24So he came bounding over everybody
07:25and sat next to me and licked the side of my face.
07:28And I licked Melanie's side of her face
07:29and went all the way around.
07:32After that night, the phone wouldn't stop ringing.
07:34Lee doggedly pursued Anderson,
07:37eventually wearing her down
07:38after he followed her to a photo shoot
07:40in Mexico in February, 1995.
07:43The attraction between them
07:44proved to be too powerful to ignore.
07:47And he just looked at me and he goes,
07:49you wanna get married?
07:50And I was like, yeah, I do.
07:52And he goes, have you ever felt this way before?
07:54I go, never.
07:55I've never felt this way before.
07:56And he goes, okay.
07:57And he took his friend's skull ring off,
07:59put it on my finger, and that was it.
08:01They had known each other for four days
08:03when they tied the knot.
08:04To say they shocked the public
08:06when they returned home
08:07would be an understatement.
08:08We landed too.
08:09So much paparazzi.
08:11It was crazy.
08:14Everyone was in shock.
08:16For those who already had a certain image
08:18of Pamela Anderson in their minds,
08:20her impulsive marriage to a rock star
08:22famed for his wild antics
08:24was just more proof of the archetype
08:26they described to her.
08:28Somebody flighty and unserious
08:30whose only substance
08:31was in her physical enhancements.
08:33Why not?
08:33What's wrong with that?
08:34Beats bodyguard.
08:35You got a great body?
08:36Why not?
08:36Why not use it?
08:37That's what I say.
08:38Why has everything got to be about the acting?
08:39For anyone in the position
08:40to know the couple better,
08:42the story was very different.
08:44Despite an unconventional courtship,
08:46Anderson and Lee settled
08:47into a very sweet married life together.
08:50We got married because
08:50there was real chemistry between us
08:52and it was very quick.
08:54But we fell in love.
08:56I mean, it was wild.
08:58But as our relationship kind of evolved,
09:02he really supported me as a person.
09:04And I really supported him as a person,
09:05which I found,
09:06which I've never found before.
09:07They began to plan for a family,
09:09capturing their domestic world
09:11in an endless series of home videos.
09:13We filmed everything back then.
09:15We always had these camcorders.
09:18And then you fill the tape,
09:19and then you put the tape away,
09:20and you label it,
09:20and then you get another tape,
09:21and you label it.
09:22But those were moments I'm glad we captured.
09:24We need to get any preggos.
09:26I don't know.
09:27I'm trying.
09:28Their happiness was shattered early in 1996,
09:32when they realized one of those tapes
09:33had been stolen during a home burglary
09:36the previous year.
09:37This one in particular was filmed
09:39during a romantic getaway at Lake Mead,
09:41and featured Anderson and Lee
09:43in situations typical of newlyweds in love.
09:46Now, their private moments together
09:47were being sold as a sex tape
09:49available to anyone and everyone.
09:51We had no way to navigate it
09:52because there was no one else
09:53that was going through anything like this.
09:55You know, so we didn't really have the playbook
09:57on how to, you know,
10:00get it all back or make it go away.
10:02Though the violation left her reeling,
10:04Anderson resolved to fight back.
10:07She and Lee launched a historic lawsuit
10:09against Internet Entertainment Group,
10:11the company that distributed the footage online.
10:14My fight is not for me alone,
10:15but for all celebrities whose privacy has been invaded.
10:18I will continue to fight
10:19not only for myself and my children,
10:21but also for legislation
10:23that would make what they are doing
10:24to me a crime.
10:26It was a big case.
10:27It was a right to privacy case.
10:28So it was an important case
10:30to set a precedent.
10:31It should have been an open and shut matter.
10:33Distributing stolen property without consent,
10:36especially material of a sensitive nature,
10:38that seems criminal in any sense of the word.
10:41But of course,
10:41that's not the sane, sensible world we live in.
10:44The lawyers basically said,
10:45you're in Playboy,
10:46you have no right to privacy.
10:47And that was a little bit shocking,
10:51but...
10:53Incredibly,
10:55Anderson found herself on trial
10:57as lawyers shredded apart her private life
10:59and reframed it in the context
11:01of her public persona.
11:03Meanwhile,
11:03the court of public opinion
11:05was reacting with vicious schadenfreude.
11:07They lose pictures of the honeymoon.
11:09They, you know,
11:10what is wrong with you guys?
11:11No, they were stolen.
11:12We have no friends.
11:13No friends.
11:14We have no friends anymore.
11:15Really?
11:16No, everyone has told us out.
11:17Everyone who'd ever looked down on Anderson
11:19for her appearance or her career
11:21suddenly felt they had free reign
11:23to be as nasty as they wanted.
11:25Leading the charge
11:26were some of the most popular
11:28celebrity voices of the day,
11:30like Jay Leno,
11:31who referenced the situation
11:32so frequently on The Tonight Show
11:34that it seemed like
11:35he must be earning commission.
11:37Pamela Lee and Tommy Lee.
11:38Pamela Lee and Tommy.
11:39Pamela and Tommy Lee.
11:40Pamela and Tommy Lee.
11:41Pamela Lee.
11:41Pamela Lee.
11:42Tommy and Pamela Lee.
11:42Tommy and Pamela Lee.
11:43Pamela and Tommy Lee.
11:44Pamela and Tommy Lee.
11:48Maybe one or two.
11:53Did you have a favorite?
11:54It's not funny.
11:56It's not funny.
11:57This is devastating to us.
11:58Anderson broke the rules, you see.
12:00She broke conservative rules
12:02of moral decency
12:03by being free with her body
12:05and open about her sexuality.
12:07And then she broke the rules again
12:08when she attempted to assert boundaries
12:10around the ownership of her image.
12:12You were the first celebrity
12:14to have a sex tape scandal.
12:18Well, we didn't make a sex tape.
12:20We were always naked
12:22and we were always filming things
12:24and this was not a tape made
12:25for anyone to see.
12:26So, and we never made
12:27any money off this tape.
12:28The culture at the time
12:29saw no distinction
12:30between pictures she'd taken consentingly
12:33and film footage
12:34she'd intended to be private.
12:36Instead, it reveled
12:37in her public humiliation,
12:39insisting that she was somehow
12:40less human
12:41and less deserving of privacy
12:43and compassion
12:44because of her career.
12:45That she would insist otherwise
12:47was treated as more outrageous
12:49than anything she'd ever put
12:50on the pages of Playboy.
12:52Suddenly, the means by which
12:54she had originally reclaimed her body
12:56became a weapon used
12:57to traumatize her all over again.
12:59I remember looking at them thinking,
13:01why do they hate me so much?
13:03Why do these grown men
13:04hate me so much?
13:06In the end,
13:06Anderson and Lee backed down.
13:09Not because they were in the wrong,
13:10but because the trial
13:11and surrounding media circuits
13:13were so brutal.
13:15Anderson, who was pregnant
13:16with her second child at the time,
13:18had already had one miscarriage
13:19in the past
13:20and feared that the continued distress
13:22could induce another.
13:23We really just wanted to make sure
13:25our family was okay.
13:26The damage was done.
13:27It's out.
13:28And it was stressful for both of us
13:29and we just wanted to move on with our lives.
13:31She walked away for the good
13:32of her family and her health,
13:34but the damage was done
13:35and the fallout would continue
13:37for years to come.
13:38After that,
13:39it just felt like that
13:40solidified kind of the cartoon image too.
13:43You become a caricature.
13:48I think that was the deterioration
13:50of kind of whatever image I had.
13:53As Anderson tried to put
13:55her professional life back together,
13:57things crumbled at home.
13:58Lee unraveled,
14:00becoming increasingly volatile
14:01and jealous.
14:03The added stress of a second baby
14:04helped send him over the edge.
14:06I said,
14:07you've got to grow up.
14:08It's not about you anymore.
14:09And I'd never spoken that way to him before.
14:11I'd never ever.
14:13I didn't recognize him.
14:14He went black.
14:15Anderson had Lee arrested
14:16for domestic abuse.
14:18And though he tried to make amends
14:19during his ensuing six months in jail,
14:22they divorced in 1998.
14:24Despite still being deeply in love with him,
14:26Anderson refused to remain in a situation
14:29that could be dangerous to her
14:30or her children.
14:32Mommy and daddy will eventually
14:33be able to be friends, I hope.
14:35But I want you to know
14:36that I would rather be alone
14:38than ever live with that abuse again.
14:40You will always be in a safe place.
14:43Anderson would go on to have
14:44other highly publicized relationships
14:46and marriages.
14:48For her haters,
14:49her romantic ups and downs
14:50would become one more thing
14:52to sneer about.
14:53Her many tribulations notwithstanding, though,
14:55she remained remarkably unjaded,
14:58always tuning out the noise
14:59of other people's opinions
15:00and following her own heart.
15:02I'd go to the Playboy Mansion
15:03and I would see Smokey Robinson
15:05and he would say,
15:06I'd say,
15:06oh God, I got divorced again.
15:07He goes,
15:08baby, you're romantic.
15:09Keep on trying.
15:10He goes,
15:10you are my hero.
15:11I love it.
15:12I love it.
15:12He goes,
15:13you just keep trying.
15:13Some people get bitter
15:14and you just keep going.
15:15Anderson will gamely admit
15:16this doesn't always work out ideally,
15:19but she also has a rare ability
15:20to recognize a negative situation
15:22and remove herself from it
15:24without internal shame.
15:25Many people who would consider themselves
15:27superior to the actress
15:28struggle with the kind of decisive clarity
15:30that requires.
15:31I used to always say,
15:32I don't need to be with you.
15:33I want to be with you.
15:35And if I want to leave,
15:36I can.
15:37And if I ever really kind of stated those facts,
15:39it made people more insecure.
15:41These qualities are part of an inherent optimism
15:43that Pamela Anderson carries at her core.
15:46However many times she gets knocked down,
15:48she always gets back up again.
15:50I mean, warming up here all by yourself
15:51away from those younger, stronger swimmers
15:54whose only goal in life
15:56is to beat you out of a spot.
15:58They don't.
15:59Good.
16:00Experience is the most important thing.
16:02Following the release of her stolen video,
16:04she found herself unable to progress
16:06her acting career as she had hoped.
16:08So instead, she used the spotlight
16:10to fuel her activism.
16:11It's getting colder out
16:13and people are, you know,
16:14tending to maybe put on fur coats.
16:17No, but that's nobody.
16:17You know, you don't see anybody wearing fur.
16:19You guys have done a terrific...
16:20So you don't have to make laws.
16:21If you convince people
16:21that something is not a smart thing to do,
16:24then they do it on their own.
16:25And that's the best way to do it.
16:25I don't think anyone would wear something
16:27that they knew so much cruelty went into.
16:29Anderson has been vocal
16:30about a number of issues,
16:31but her most passionate work
16:32is on behalf of environmental causes
16:34and animal rights.
16:36She has cleverly leveraged
16:38her public image to raise awareness
16:39and substantial amounts of money.
16:42For instance,
16:43she only allowed Comedy Central
16:44to roast her in exchange
16:46for a hefty donation to PETA.
16:48I'd like to thank you
16:49for giving me the opportunity
16:50to make fun of you tonight.
16:52I think the reason the world loves you so much
16:54is that you're beautiful and famous,
16:56yet you still treat everyone you meet
16:58with kindness and respect.
17:00Watching the way Anderson repurposes pain
17:02into positivity is impressive.
17:05Not only does it illustrate
17:06her strength of conviction
17:07and the endearing sense of humor
17:09she has about herself,
17:10but it also shows us
17:11her considerable intelligence
17:13and a canny mind for media strategy.
17:16You get a sense of me being a mom
17:17and juggling this crazy, silly career
17:19running around being naked
17:20and saving animals.
17:21Which that must be quite a juggling act.
17:24Sorry, it is a juggling act, yes.
17:26Looking closer at her life in the public eye,
17:29these attributes have been present
17:30the whole time.
17:32But people were so caught up
17:33in an image and a certainty
17:35that they understood what it meant
17:37that they completely overlooked the rest.
17:39Do you want to be judged by your looks
17:40or by who's inside the real Pamela?
17:43Well, the whole package.
17:44The whole package, okay.
17:46There is no denying that popular culture
17:48has been ruthlessly unfair to Pamela Anderson,
17:51as it has been to so many women before her
17:53who didn't fit in boxes.
17:55However, by virtue of living in the modern age,
17:58she does have an advantage
17:59that many of those women never did.
18:01She has a platform of her own.
18:03Obviously, I'm all these different things.
18:05It didn't take you to write these little notes
18:07and stuff like that, obviously.
18:08No, I understand, but this is a global business.
18:11It can be a global business.
18:12I'm a global business.
18:13I created a global brand.
18:14Just as she once asserted control over her body,
18:17Anderson has steadily worked
18:18to take back control of her narrative.
18:20Subtly at first,
18:21but more and more directly as time passed.
18:24And in recent years,
18:25her efforts have really started to pay off.
18:28I needed to show everybody
18:29that I'm just more than what they think.
18:32And I wanted to prove people wrong.
18:34It's always fun to do that.
18:35As wider conversations about patriarchy
18:37and misogyny have gained prominence,
18:40it became clear that Pamela Anderson
18:42was long overdue for a re-evaluation.
18:45For her part,
18:46Anderson was ready to meet the moment.
18:48In fact, she had been ready.
18:50It's just natural.
18:51Like, I kind of knew this was gonna happen at some point.
18:53I didn't know who was gonna be listening
18:54or if anybody would care,
18:56but I'm just really grateful
18:59that I've been able to tell my story.
19:01In the 2023 documentary,
19:03Pamela, A Love Story on Netflix,
19:05she went in depth about her past and present,
19:08her honest vulnerability
19:09striking a chord with viewers.
19:11However, it was her other projects
19:13that seemed to take everyone by surprise.
19:16You wanna know something?
19:18I always wanted my name in the papers.
19:21Roxy Rock Chicago!
19:23Her stint as Roxy Hart in Chicago
19:25on Broadway seemed like a stunt casting,
19:28but was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews.
19:31Who knew Pamela Anderson had so much razzle-dazzle?
19:34In addition to publishing her memoir,
19:36Love, Pamela,
19:37she put out I Love You!
19:39Recipes from the Heart,
19:40a vegan cookbook that included personal stories
19:43alongside her recipes,
19:44and got kudos from the likes of Martha Stewart.
19:47This is the sourdough Guinness gingerbread cake,
19:50which everybody loves.
19:51Okay, I'm gonna just start trying it.
19:52I hope that's all right.
19:53So this is the caramel sauce.
19:54Ooh, yum!
19:56Is this the caramel sauce?
19:57Excellent.
19:58Yes, this is the caramel sauce.
19:59Okay.
19:59And you also have this and some orange.
20:02What is the orange do?
20:03I'm kind of a cavewoman,
20:04so I just rip it apart and put a little side.
20:07Who would have guessed that Pamela Anderson
20:08is a talented writer,
20:10or that she's so domestic?
20:11Well, in fact,
20:12anyone who had really paid attention
20:14to Pamela Anderson in the past
20:16wouldn't have been so amazed.
20:18I have these cookie dreams.
20:19I write them down.
20:20I have lots of stories.
20:21I used to win creative writing awards
20:23when I was in the school.
20:24From the beginning,
20:25she's been as open about these facets of herself
20:27as she has her body.
20:29It just took a few decades
20:30before we were ready to accept her
20:32as a complex individual.
20:35Unfortunately,
20:35it's hard not to notice
20:37that this cultural embrace
20:38is coming at a time
20:39when she's not just older,
20:40but actively creating separation
20:42from her hyper-sexualized past persona.
20:45Every girl wants to be sexy.
20:47Every girl wants to be,
20:48you know,
20:50beautiful or pretty as they can be,
20:52but I've never thought of myself as beautiful.
20:53I've just always thought I was kind of cute,
20:57a little funny,
20:57and I think I've improved with age.
21:00I don't know.
21:00If those implications bother Anderson,
21:03she doesn't show it.
21:04A hallmark of her career
21:05is her constant evolution
21:07and the way she subverts expectations
21:09by just doing her own thing.
21:11You're not going to scare anybody.
21:12That's what I found.
21:13People aren't falling over backwards.
21:15Oh no, she's so ugly.
21:17It's just how it is,
21:18what it is,
21:18and self-acceptance is a beautiful thing.
21:20Her decision to go without makeup
21:22at Paris Fashion Week in 2023
21:24was a choice she made for herself,
21:26but it still turned heads and headlines
21:28all over the world.
21:30Once upon a time,
21:31the decision to appear visibly older than 30 in public
21:34would have gotten Anderson mocked and belittled.
21:37However, her natural look
21:38has been largely celebrated,
21:40not that it would make a difference to her
21:42if it wasn't.
21:42I'm good enough as I am
21:44that I don't need to chase this impossible dream.
21:49And that was the great parallel too
21:51with the character I got to play in the last showgirl.
21:53In the midst of all of this,
21:55Pamela Anderson also finally got the opportunity
21:58she dreamed of back at the start of her life
22:00in Los Angeles,
22:01the chance to test the waters
22:02as an actress in a serious project.
22:05I feel so good about myself in this show
22:07and you and Marianne and Hannah can't understand,
22:09but the costumes,
22:11the sets,
22:13being bathed in that light night after night,
22:15feeling seen,
22:17feeling beautiful,
22:19that is powerful.
22:20In 2024,
22:21she starred in The Last Showgirl
22:23to widespread acclaim.
22:25Not only was the film deemed a success,
22:27but Anderson earned Best Actress nominations
22:30at the Golden Globes
22:31and the SAG Awards for her work.
22:33It was a long road to get here,
22:35kind of an unorthodox route, I guess,
22:37but I'm here
22:38and it's just so exciting.
22:39I'm thrilled.
22:40I just,
22:41it's hard to believe,
22:42but I want to enjoy every minute of it
22:44and,
22:45you know,
22:46and just,
22:47I'm excited.
22:48At the time of writing,
22:49she has several film projects upcoming,
22:51two of which are serious dramatic pieces.
22:54But her role in the reboot of The Naked Gun
22:56proves she hasn't lost her taste for comedy either.
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23:19For more than 30 years,
23:23people have been trying to boil Pamela Anderson down
23:25into something that is easily definable.
23:28It feels like so much of the negativity lobbed her away
23:31came because it was something that couldn't be done,
23:33or rather,
23:34that she wouldn't let anyone do.
23:35I gotta do this myself.
23:38I don't want any input.
23:39I don't want any words from anybody else.
23:42Words are really important to me
23:43and important to anybody.
23:45She was a bombshell brimming with ambition,
23:47a sharp wit without any guile,
23:50a savvy romantic,
23:51a sweet soul with a warrior's heart.
23:53With so many shades of nuance,
23:55it would be impossible to give Pamela Anderson any one label.
23:58But if we had to try,
24:00it would be resilient.
24:01As much pain as we can endure in our lives
24:04is kind of like the catalyst to all the great stuff,
24:07like poetry, music, art.
24:10I'm grateful for all the experiences I had
24:13and I don't blame anybody for anything.
24:15I'm glad it happened.
24:16She spent years fearlessly forging her own path
24:19without care or concern
24:21for what anyone else thinks about her winding route.
24:24It's had highs and lows,
24:26wrong turns and dead ends,
24:27but it has been hers completely.
24:29And we can finally appreciate the beauty in that.
24:32And it's not about feeling beautiful.
24:33It's just feeling great.
24:37Beauty is the freedom to be you.
24:39The 90s were rough on a lot of talented women.
24:41Which other icon of the era deserves a revival?
24:44Share your opinions in the comments.
24:47Do you know any Shakespeare?
24:48To be or not to be that is a question.
24:49To the no more in the minds
24:50will suffer slings and arrows
24:51of outrageous fortune.
24:52How it could go on.
24:53You have a photographic memory.
24:54I have a photographic memory sometimes, yeah.
24:59I'm just going to see if you want a rather than that.
25:01I don't see it.
25:02It means that we are still up yet to live to in it.
25:05There are no hands of our faces as well.
25:06Like the story with the dancing before.
25:08So you're having something to come into it.
25:08You got to go in.
25:09And I'm going to learn till this but it's taking your back off.
25:11You know it nearly never.
25:12You got to go in.
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25:15And you too.
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