Pamela Anderson, from Baywatch at the clafoutis | The Press

Without makeup, without latex, but with a return to the forefront. Pamela Anderson has been surprising for several years. More than 30 years after the series Baywatchthe Canadian actress, who has found the calm of her Vancouver Island, is publishing these days a book of her favorite recipes, I Love You : Recipes From the Heart. A look back at his career in five stages.

The book

I Love You : Recipes From the Heart is a beautiful, very careful cookbook, where nature is omnipresent. The photographs highlight the 80 recipes of Pamela Anderson, who loves cooking and gardening, she writes. Since the birth of her children in the 1990s, the actress has been making cakes in the shape of hearts and stars, and there is nothing better, according to her, than a loaf of bread straight out of the oven. His vegetarian recipes are very varied. There we find discoveries made during his numerous travels all over the world and those shared at the table, with family. Cinnamon buns, smoothies, green gazpacho, wild mushroom risotto, Moroccan lentil soup, focaccia, clafoutis… she even gives the recipe for her wedding cake, inspired by the Tropezian tart, with wild strawberries. Today, she takes the time to savor life and reminds us that the most important ingredient is love.

Le sex-symbol

Pamela Anderson left her mark on popular culture with her role in Baywatchin the 1990s. She played C. J. Parker, a sexy lifeguard dressed in a red swimsuit on the beaches of Malibu. It is with this role, and this sex symbol image that sticks to her, that she became famous throughout the world. Born in British Columbia in 1967, Pamela Anderson began her career as a model. She was on the cover of the magazine Playboy in October 1989 and became the Playmate of the Month in February 1990. She starred in a few films like Barb Wire, Blonde and Blonder and made appearances in Scooby-Doo, Scary Movie 3 et Borat.

The couple Pamela and Tommy

In 1995, she married Tommy Lee, drummer for the band Mötley Crüe, just a few days after they met. The couple, who will have two children, fascinates the whole world and their tumultuous relationship is the joy of the tabloids. Pamela filed for divorce in 1998. An intimate video shot by the couple during their honeymoon was stolen during a burglary in her home and broadcast on the internet. The affair of sex tape lasted for many years and was very badly received by Pamela Anderson. In the Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Storyshe compares the theft and distribution of this tape to rape. This scandal will tarnish the image of the actress, long perceived as a sexual object. She also wanted to get rid of this unrewarding image seen in the series Pam & Tommy (released in 2022 on Disney+), series that she did not approve.

A new natural icon

In recent years, Pamela Anderson has transformed herself. An active activist for animal rights, she now lives in her childhood home in British Columbia in Ladysmith, a small town on Vancouver Island, where she enjoys her garden and the Pacific Ocean. She no longer wears makeup (or almost), and since then, she says she feels more free than ever, since she no longer wants to waste two or three hours putting on makeup. Fashion-wise, she adopted a clean, minimalist look and ditched the miniskirts, necklines and ultra-tight dresses. We saw her in a very classic blazer in the advertising campaign for the Canadian brand Aritzia in fall 2023, then in that of the American brand Proenza Schouler in spring 2024. She is also an ambassador for the Danish jewelry brand Pandora.

Cinema

Career-wise, Pamela Anderson played Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on Broadway in 2022. This year, she returns to the cinema in The Last Showgirla film by Gia Coppola, in which she plays an aging Las Vegas dancer who is forced to change careers. Her performance was very noted and the BBC spoke of Pamela Anderson as a real revelation. The film, which is due to be released in the United States in December, was presented last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Canadian actress presented it as the role of her life. “I think I’ve been preparing my whole life for this role,” she said. The Zurich festival also paid tribute to her and presented her with the Golden Eye Award to reward her career, and it was in a pink dress by Oscar de la Renta that she received this award. Festival director Christian Jungen congratulated her on her performance, which he considered worthy of an Oscar: “Pamela Anderson plays so well that you forget the person behind the character,” he emphasized.

I Love You : Recipes From the Heart

Pamela Anderson

Little Brown and Compagny

288 pages