Pamela
Anderson
Pamela
Denise Anderson was born July 1, 196,7 in Ladysmith,
British Columbia, Canada. Shortly after she was born, her parents,
a furnace repairman and a waitress, moved to Comox, British Columbia,
about 285 miles north of Vancouver. It was there one day in a library
that Pamela Anderson modeling career would start.
Pamela Anderson was sitting listening to a story
with a group of other children when a photographer captured a picture
of her that won the hearts of all that viewed it. It was quickly
copyrighted and placed in all the libraries in British Columbia.
Pamela Anderson teen years
weren't anything out of the ordinary, she had braces and she was
small chested. She excelled in virtually every sport she played,
earning the nick-name "Rubber-Band" for her flexibility.
Upon graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, her yearbook
entry stated that her aspiration in life was "To be a California
Beach Bum". Pamela Anderson moved to Vancouver
when she was 21, to get a taste of the big city and get on with
her life. She was working as a fitness instructor when her direction
in life changed.
It was the summer of 1989 when close friends
of Pamela invited her to go to a Canadian Football League game with
them. One of her friends was a representative for Labatt's breweries.
A cameraman was roaming the crowd looking for someone to put up
on the big screen, when he found Pamela Anderson.
When he put her bright smiling face up on the screen, the place
erupted! Labatt's noticed the response this woman generated, and
the fact that she was wearing a Labatt's T- shirt her friend had
given her. Labatt's offered Pam a job modeling as the "Blue
Girl" for their products, and Pamela Anderson
posters were all over walls in bars and restaurants in Canada.
Ken Honey, a freelance photographer, took
a few pictures of Pamela Anderson and talked her
into submitting them to Playboy. Playboy seized the opportunity,
and Pamela Anderson was off to Los Angeles to do
the cover for their October '89 issue. The Playboy spread launched
Pamela Anderson career, yielding small parts on
various TV shows. Then, in 1991, stared in the role of "Lisa",
the "Tool-Time-Girl" on ABC Television's "Home Improvement".
David Hasslehoff was a fan of the show and when he saw Pamela
Anderson in the role of "Lisa", he knew he'd
found a new lifeguard for his new series "Baywatch". C.J.
Parker, Pamela Anderson character name on Baywatch,
was born. Pamela Anderson immediately jumped at
the opportunity of Baywatch and she says that the character of C.J.
and herself are very similar. Pamela Anderson grandfather
Herman, a native of Finland taught Pamela Anderson
to believe in "New Age Thinking", crystals, meditation
and dream interpretation. Pamela's character C.J. on Baywatch, portrays
many of the same views.
Pamela Anderson has starred
in several other roles outside of Baywatch, including an uncredited
role in the 1992 flop, "The Taking of Beverly Hills".
After that, she went on to star as "Felicity" in the thriller
"Snapdragon". This one is highly recommended if you're
a Pam fanatic. In 1994, she played the part of "Sarah"
in the HBO movie "Raw Justice" with David Keith. Mickey
Spillane's detective series, "Mike Hammer" came calling
later that year and Pamela found herself playing the very beautiful
"Velda". In 1995, Pamela Anderson played
a quirky artist in the TV movie, "The Evolution of Mr. E.",
adapted from the H.G. Wells book of the same name.
On New Year's Eve in 1994, Pamela
Anderson was attending a party in New York, where she met
Motley Crue drummer, Tommy Lee. He came right up to her and licked
her face! They talked off and on, and after he begged her several
times for her phone number, she finally gave in and let him have
it. Tommy called Pamela over and over again for the next few weeks
trying to arrange a date and in the first week of February 1995,
he succeeded, only to be canceled on at the last moment. Pam had
been called away to Cancun, Mexico to do a photo shoot for her sun-tan
lotion product line.
Tommy determined to win over Pamela
Anderson at any cost, and followed her to Cancun. After
four days of courting and endless parties, the two were married
on a beach. Pamela Anderson wearing a white bikini
and Tommy wearing a set of shorts. After returning to L.A., they
had wedding rings tattooed on their fingers inscribed with each
others name.
Going against the advice of Nick Stevens,
her personal manager, Pamela accepted the role to play futuristic
bounty hunter "Barb Wire" for Dark Horse Comics and Gramercy
Pictures. He thought it would be a tremendous mistake, but Pamela
thought otherwise.
In May 1996, "Barb Wire" opened,
with the soundtrack featuring a song Tommy wrote called "Planet
Boom". While filming "Barb Wire", Pamela
Anderson suffered a miscarriage, both Pam and Tommy were
devastated. There wasn't really anyone or anything to blame other
than the fact that Pamela Anderson, being the hard
worker that she is, was simply overworked. Stress played it's toll
on Pamela Anderson, filming Baywatch ten hours
in the sun, and then filming some more at the set of "Barb
Wire". Pamela Anderson has gone on to star
in her own series, "V.I.P.", have a baby, have more tattoos,
breast augmentations, and has now become one of the most photographed
and widely admired women in the World.
