Women everywhere are extolling the single life – not least, Pamela Anderson | Polly Hudson
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<p>After five marriages and countless magazine covers, the former Baywatch star makes being makeup-free and unattached look the best of all worlds</p><p>Pamela Anderson has been married five times. She has made the kind of romantic decisions – impulsive, reckless, incorrigible – that suggest someone who struggles to be alone. She had known her first husband only a few days; her second marriage lasted four months; she described her most recent, in 2020, as “a disaster”. Now, at
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Women everywhere are extolling the single life – not least, Pamela Anderson Polly Hudson After five marriages and countless magazine covers, the former Baywatch star makes being makeup-free and unattached look the best of all worlds P amela Anderson has been married five times. She has made the kind of romantic decisions – impulsive, reckless, incorrigible – that suggest someone who struggles to be alone. She had known her first husband only a few days; her second marriage lasted four months; she described her most recent, in 2020, as “a disaster”. Now, at 58, she is finally single. “There’s that great Osho quote – ‘The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love.’ That’s where I’m at right now,” she told AnOther magazine. “I just want to unleash the dragon. I don’t need anybody in my way. I want to get it out. It happens at different times in everybody’s life, and this is my time.” Inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places, but the pneumatic 90s pin-up must be the most unexpected feminist icon so far. And yet, her new insistence on decentring men is merely the latest entry in a list of role model moves she has made recently. It’s quite the 180 from someone whose raison d’être once appeared to be the male gaze, who surgically altered her body to cartoon proportions to appeal to them, who has said: “My boobs had a career and I was just tagging along.” Thanks to her, a badly scripted, worse acted teatime TV show about lifeguards was an international smash hit. (No one tuned in to Baywatch for the articles.) Since then, she has parlayed her celebrity currency into a more meaningful entity, using her platform to speak about animal rights and environmental activism. Her double D implants were removed in 1999. She has also done something dramatic to her face. No, not like that. Somebody most recognisable when plastered in heavy makeup choosing not to wear any at all on various red carpets may not technically be brave, comparatively, with matters of life or de...
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