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Pamela Anderson

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Itwillallbeokayok · 31/01/2023 22:11

Watching the documentary on Netflix, I like her, I’m quite surprised, not sure why!
She was so pretty back before the peroxide and implants

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AlwaysGinPlease · 01/02/2023 14:42

Looking forward to this. I think she's absolutely lovely. Very good with animals and animal charities. Beautiful inside and out.

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Itwillallbeokayok · 01/02/2023 15:37

@AngryGoblin She said in the documentary that she was molested by her female babysitter for years when she was little too 😔horrendous.
I’m not sure her parents were awful to her, she seemed to have a good relationship with them, I think they were very young and had a fiery relationship

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Shoogly · 01/02/2023 21:04

Just watched the Netflix documentary. She seems lovely. Very sad what happened with the sex tape and now the documentary. I hope she finds happiness, she seems a bit lost.

Cherryana · 01/02/2023 21:12

I have always wondered why she was given such a hard time as when she was interviewed she always came across as lovely (Ruby Wax was the first one I remember).

Seeing pictures of her when she was younger with that youthful glow - no wonder she famous. She was (is) such a beauty.

She has a vulnerablity about her that reminds me of Marylyn Monroe. I thought she came across very well in the documentary and her children are wonderful.

Oblomov22 · 01/02/2023 21:16

Oh. Sorry.

Nousernamesleftatall · 01/02/2023 21:17

I watched it last night. She is a lovely person. She always came across as a free spirit. Sad she was sexualised so young and how for all her fame she made very little money. She was so beautiful.

EmmaDilemma5 · 01/02/2023 21:18

I've just watched it. I like her but she's so damaged from her childhood. She can't be alone and whilst it's great that she leaves men when they treat her poorly, it's sad how many marriages she's jumped into.

Her family life growing up seemed extremely dysfunctional. The fact that her mum still defends her parents relationship as being loving despite the verbal and physical abuse is crazy, no wonder Pamela struggles.

Spring23 · 01/02/2023 21:19

I read that times interview - something like nobody thought she could write her own book and would need a ghost writer. Tempted to buy it, had no idea she'd had such an awful childhood.

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 01/02/2023 21:24

I've always liked her too. She is DH's celebrity crush and he thinks she's really intelligent like it's her brains he's attracted to Guardian article says she has struggled a bit with drugs, but is making a fresh start now that she's split from her French(?) BF and is living back in the US.

RudolfsLeftToe · 01/02/2023 21:26

I’ve read her book, it reads as being loosely based on her life but without the traumatic things mentioned up thread. Unless I’ve blocked them from my memory.
I’d say it’s a typical beach holiday book but I still enjoyed it.

Yousillybugger · 01/02/2023 21:28

What drugs did she struggle with? I don’t think that was mentioned in the documentary, only the E Tommy put in her champagne the night they met

Glamourgal1989 · 01/02/2023 21:35

I always liked her

whytesnow · 02/02/2023 00:19

I loved the pam n Tommy series
She seems like such a nice person
Watched the doc last night it's so good

discobrain · 02/02/2023 00:54

She only ever wanted to be loved and listened to, and she ended up being treated so badly. She used her diaries to keep a record of things, if anything ever happened to her. Imagine having to think ahead like that.

Poor lamb.

walkinthewoodstoday · 02/02/2023 21:38

Her sons seem decent

walkinthewoodstoday · 02/02/2023 21:43

She definitely LTB a few times!

YourVagesty · 02/02/2023 21:44

I was little when Pamela Anderson was at her peak and I remember vaguely being aware that she was a seedy celebrity. Tacky, like Jordan.

Watching the documentary I'm amazed at how genuinely beautiful she was. Her facial proportions were/are mesmerising.

CandleInTheStorm · 02/02/2023 21:56

I've always loved Pamela, especially since her MTV Cribs episode. Her beach house looked lovely, and you could really tell she was a sweet soul who loved her boys who were small then.

The Pam and Tommy series for me was enlightening because it told the story of how the sex tape was stolen and the lengths that man went to to publish it. Any thoughts from people that the tape was somehow "leaked" from within were certainly put to bed.

crimsonpeak · 02/02/2023 22:41

Love her. Beautiful inside and out. She’s had some tough times in her life. Her sons seem to absolutely adore her. Wishing her well.

TheaBrandt · 02/02/2023 22:45

What I don’t understand after watching that and also the Emily Atack documentary is why women that men fancy (busty blondes) who are perfectly decent and nice inspire such vicious hatred from so many men. As Pamela said about the men gleefully circulating the stolen video “ it was like they hated me what had I ever done to them”. Men are weird.

YourVagesty · 02/02/2023 23:53

@TheaBrandt

I reckon its because desirable women have exist but they can't have them. So it makes them angry - look up Bye Felipe for example. If the penis is denied, the man attached to it becomes a fucking cave troll. Ask any woman in the public eye.

And of course there's that weird 'she's a slag so she's fair game' attitude. They want us to be sluts but they don't, simultaneously.

The more I type this response, the more I think that men have no brains in their actual heads.

TheaBrandt · 03/02/2023 05:24

It’s so puzzling. Just struck me watching the two programmes close together. If a woman presents sexually in public and is desirable she triggers a very dark side in many men. I would be fascinated to know why. I cannot ever imagine that being the case if the sexes were reversed. Surely on a logical basis being attractive and lovely should make men like you not hate you with a passion so that they want to see you destroyed? As I said men are weird.

PSNonsense · 03/02/2023 05:34

She came across well. It's clear Tommy is the love of her life but was that because she loved him as a person, or because he's the father of her children? Would she have loved him as much if she didn't have the kids to him? They seemed like lovely boys.

I get why she goes from marriage to marriage, she's a romantic soul and is
not giving up on finding love even though she all but admits it's unlikely she's going to find it.

discobrain · 03/02/2023 09:55

YourVagesty · 02/02/2023 21:44

I was little when Pamela Anderson was at her peak and I remember vaguely being aware that she was a seedy celebrity. Tacky, like Jordan.

Watching the documentary I'm amazed at how genuinely beautiful she was. Her facial proportions were/are mesmerising.

Women such as Pamela and Jordan have all been labelled as tacky and seedy because it's the standard patriarchal way of demonising women who dare to live loudly. The men in any of these equations are always hailed as legends for being the trash that they are.

Same thing happened to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Poor Britney is so ill bless her, which made everything so much harder.

Every time I see a woman being hailed as a slut by the media, I ignore it and look at her as a person rather than the Trainwreck the media want to monetise.

Pamela deserves to be happy and not have that tape harassing her forever.

hiyaKen · 05/02/2023 18:48

I watched the Disney series and now the documentary

My perception really changed. I never liked her
In the 90s and assumed the sex tape was
Their own doing but i really feel for her. It ruined her career. I think the Disney series painterd her in a sympathetic light. It was obviousl how damaging that was for her life professionally and personally

I hope she can capitalise now she's become prominent again. Great to see she's in Chicago. Maybe there's a new career for her in her 50s as an actress

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