Pamela Anderson Gets Honest About Wearing a Swimsuit at 57
Pamela Anderson opened up about wearing a swimsuit at 57.
She finds the act much more “freeing” now than she did in her Baywatch days.
“It’s the first time in my life where I feel like if I’m wearing a bathing suit… I feel fine about myself,” she said.
Swimsuits were Pamela Anderson’s uniform for years on Baywatch, and yet, it’s just now, at 57, that she’s totally comfortable wearing one. In fact, she finds the act “freeing,” she recently told Glamour.
You may have seen her as the most confident woman in the world, but internally, Anderson’s self-esteem wavered, in part due to the spectacle that ’90s and early aughts celebrity culture made of her. “I feel like [now] it’s the first time in my life where I feel like if I’m wearing a bathing suit… I feel fine about myself. It’s so freeing,” she said. “It’s so crazy because sucking in… or trying to live up to this crazy expectation of what people want you to look like or be as you get older, things change.”
Anderson continued: “I’m lucky because I’ve never really had to worry about my weight or anything like that, but I just... [have] never been 100% confident.”
Aging, however, has made the mom of two and newfound skincare brand owner fully lean into herself. She is even going mostly makeup-free these days, on and off the red carpet. “You’re going to hit a crossroads in your 50s, and you go, Am I going to chase youth? Am I going to be miserable? Or am I going to be self-accepting?” she said. “And it’s a practice. And it’s hard to say that you’re attempting all this if you’re still doing the red carpets and the covers of magazines plastered in makeup.”
For her, the choice to go bare-faced was about practicing what she preaches. “It’s important, no matter where you are in your beauty journey, to accept yourself as you are,” she said. “And right now I’m having a big moment accepting scars I have or imperfections.”
Whether that’s leaving behind the beauty blender or running inhibition-less on the beach, radical acceptance and the effort to remain present has become a new lifeblood for Anderson. All of those efforts, big and small, add up. “This process is really empowering,” she said.
“I know it seems a little bit crazy. I’m also trying to find myself and who I am, kind of, underneath it all and trying to peel back the layers.”
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