Pamela Anderson interview

[Anonymous]

Look at all the publicity Anderson has received due to going makeup free. Her career has been revitalized. The cynic in me wonders if this isn't the way she planned it.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at all the publicity Anderson has received due to going makeup free. Her career has been revitalized. The cynic in me wonders if this isn't the way she planned it.

I mean the PR stunt romance worked as well.

I also think some of the shows and documentary worked and much of the modern public realizes how badly she was treated during the sex tape incident (she and her then spouse were the victims of a terrible invasion of privacy but were blamed or treated as a joke).

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Anonymous wrote:I find her "all natural" shtick so cloying and she looks horrific.

Not wearing makeup is our natural state. How is that a shtick or cloying?

This^. It's refreshing to see a celebrity trying to look like a human not a Kardashian doll.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is, she looks horrific without makeup. She looks ragged and run down and so much older. And wtf happened to her eyebrows? They are nonexistent!

She looks great for her age, just not an artificial made up beauty. Her eyebrows are gone due to over plucking of decades as many of women her age and she isn't drawing artificial ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at all the publicity Anderson has received due to going makeup free. Her career has been revitalized. The cynic in me wonders if this isn't the way she planned it.

It seems like you are missing that she’s had a pretty steady career even before her no makeup thing. I definitely agree getting attention and she’s on an up swing lately because she just did a big movie recently, but she’s been steadily working, on Broadway, she cofounded a beauty company, and she has almost 5,000,000 Instagram followers that she has been engaging with over the years.

Just because you haven’t seen her stuff, doesn’t mean she hasn’t been working.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is, she looks horrific without makeup. She looks ragged and run down and so much older. And wtf happened to her eyebrows? They are nonexistent!

Her skin looks fantastic and she's declining to do fake caterpillar eyebrows and this offends you? What a strange take. Not everyone finds the drag queen look aspirational.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is, she looks horrific without makeup. She looks ragged and run down and so much older. And wtf happened to her eyebrows? They are nonexistent!

She looks great for her age, just not an artificial made up beauty. Her eyebrows are gone due to over plucking of decades as many of women her age and she isn't drawing artificial ones.

I think the eyebrows are the only problem with her look, otherwise she looks lovely.

[Anonymous]

I think she looks weird beyond merely aging. Her eyes look dead. Just in 2019, she looked like herself. Maybe that just turned out to be too much work and a losing battle.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is, she looks horrific without makeup. She looks ragged and run down and so much older. And wtf happened to her eyebrows? They are nonexistent!

Her skin looks fantastic and she's declining to do fake caterpillar eyebrows and this offends you? What a strange take. Not everyone finds the drag queen look aspirational.

Not the PP, but there is a middle ground you know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find her "all natural" shtick so cloying and she looks horrific.

Not wearing makeup is our natural state. How is that a shtick or cloying?

This^. It's refreshing to see a celebrity trying to look like a human not a Kardashian doll.

Again - middle ground? Why do some of you always think in extremes?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find her "all natural" shtick so cloying and she looks horrific.

Not wearing makeup is our natural state. How is that a shtick or cloying?

This^. It's refreshing to see a celebrity trying to look like a human not a Kardashian doll.

+1 Not everyone admires fish lips, blow up butts, and bubble boobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course people are going to make a big deal when a woman in her late 50s who was known as a total s-x bomb starts coming to red carpets without makeup. You can dismiss it or criticize it, but it is pretty groundbreaking and it’s clear a lot of people find it important and helpful.

Some magazine, New Yorker I think, just did the “forever 35 face” article about how pretty much every celebrity is going to have access in the next few years to facelifts that are unattainable for the general public, but attainable for them, so pretty much most of the people we are going to see in the next decade on TV and movies are not going to look normal. Will they forever look 35… Of course not and a lot of people will probably still have crappy plastic surgery that we criticize just like now, but there is a sea change that I think is going to be even harder than growing up in the 90s and early 2000s which is saying a lot because that was hard.

This is a woman who really been through it and it was largely justified because she dared to pose in Playboy. She didn’t hurt anyone. From all accounts she seems like a great mother and very close to her boys.

Why going make up free and getting attention for it would be so triggering and upsetting to some of you is beyond me.

And why going make up free is somehow "groundbreaking, important, or helpful" to you is beyond me.

Because no one does it! Yes it is groundbreaking, because I can't think of another celebrity woman who goes in the red carpet or appears in photo shoots without makeup. Because she is older and allows her older face, with it's natural texture and wrinkles and redness, to be seen by the general public. And because she is not apologizing for it or admitting it looks bad, but glamorizing it and daring to present it as beautiful.

Some years ago, Jaime Lee Curtis appeared in a magazine in minimal clothing without retouching, lighting, or flattering posing, to demonstrate that her body looked like a normal, middle aged woman's body, with sagging, fat deposits, cellulite, etc. People called it brave and it was in a way, to expose herself without artifice. She made a point, and it was a fair one.

What Anderson is doing is similar, but different. She's not letting it all hang out -- she's still been ng styled, she's wearing flattering clothes, her hair is styled, there is artifice there. But she's leaving her face bare and daring to present it as beautiful as is. Many people will disagree but I happen to agree with her -- she has a striking, beautiful face and I think it is made more interesting to look at, and more beautiful, because it is in its natural state. You disagree and hate it, it makes you mad to look at it.

So yes, it is groundbreaking. I think it's fascinating. I hope it convinces other celebs to do the same, or to experiment with what beauty is. In the age of Botox, Ozempic, Spanx, fillers, contouring, the Kardashians, etc., I am interested in seeing something else. Anything else.

We’re ALL certainly welcome to our opinion, but I have no idea where you came up with “it makes me mad to look at it”. What? Looking at her makeup free face doesn’t make me mad in the least. It’s befuddling, sure, since even a small amount of tasteful makeup would make her look healthy and attractive. You like the makeup free look, that’s great. I think it looks ridiculous on a place like the red carpet when everything (and everyone) else is dressed up (hair, clothes, etc).

You seem to be taking all of this very personally and I have to wonder why. Tell us, do you go makeup free to the office? How about formal events?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find her "all natural" shtick so cloying and she looks horrific.

Not wearing makeup is our natural state. How is that a shtick or cloying?

This^. It's refreshing to see a celebrity trying to look like a human not a Kardashian doll.

+1 Not everyone admires fish lips, blow up butts, and bubble boobs.

All of which Pamela Anderson proudly sported not that long ago.

[Anonymous]

I think what’s being missed in this conversation is Pamela Anderson going to make up free is not just the average celebrity. This is a woman who was objectified and sexualized even more than the average female celebrity, which is saying a lot.

She is really trying to strip all of that away and it is making a statement that she’s still doing red carpets, still out in the public and working and is in a viable person in her late 50s without trying to look glamorous without being known for her looks.

I recently read Brooke Shields’s memoir, and she says that periodically she meets usually a man who is surprised that she’s out and about and bordering on angry that she has gotten old. They say the most insane things to her and her theory on why is that she was known as this gorgeous young woman and that seeing her age makes them feel old and reminds them that they too are aging.

You don’t have to like it or agree with Pamela going make up free, but it is interesting that people are having strong reactions to it, both positive and negative.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find her "all natural" shtick so cloying and she looks horrific.

Not wearing makeup is our natural state. How is that a shtick or cloying?

This^. It's refreshing to see a celebrity trying to look like a human not a Kardashian doll.

+1 Not everyone admires fish lips, blow up butts, and bubble boobs.

All of which Pamela Anderson proudly sported not that long ago.

She never had Kardashian fish lips and a blow up balloon butt(s).