Where once the name Pamela Anderson may have brought to mind a tousled blonde in a red swimsuit, running across a beach in slow motion, today the image is more likely to be of a bare-faced, softly spoken woman in billowing linen and runway-level restraint.
We’ve been witness to a kind of cultural alchemy. Because against all odds Pamela Anderson has done the unthinkable: she’s rewritten her own mythology. Unlike most icons – who are usually embalmed in the look that made them famous – Anderson has pressed delete on the Playboy playbook and emerged as something altogether more surprising. Not sexless, but soulful. Not diminished, but distilled. ©Getty
It all started with Pamela, A Love Story, her 2023 Netflix documentary and reclamation project, a retelling of her life – in her own word