A True Symbol of Beauty – Make-up Free Pamela Anderson

As I was surfing through threads today, I came across this clip from people of Pamela Anderson make-up free over and over. I’m just in awe; I cannot stop thinking about it.

Pamela came to fame as a sex symbol, and these types of figures have historically been polarizing on society at large. While they’re prized and praised for their beauty, they’re deeply sexualized and thus seen as immoral by certain demographics. As such, I believe a lot of people have preconceived notions about her that tainted their perception of Pamela Anderson as an older woman. She was fortunate to be beautiful and got paid for it! However you may feel about her youthful antics: you weren’t the same person as you were 30 years ago, were you?

If you are–well, I suggest some positive self-reflection. 🤧

 

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A True Symbol of Beauty – Make-up Free Pamela Anderson

This is the very clip I keep watching. She’s beautiful. I’m elated just looking at her, with her imperfect skin, crystal clear eyes; proudly wearing her wrinkles. She’s glowing in a way a woman only does when they finally feel free.

I feel like her soul is free, without the pressure of being youthful and performative bombshell appearances. The internet discourse about Make-up Free Pamela Anderson is so funny to me, because it doesn’t make sense. So many people praise or criticize her going make-up free, with a variety of claims about her appearance. More and more, it becomes clear to me that maybe some people don’t fully understand what it means for Pamela Anderson to be without make-up. People don’t seem to take her seriously because of her past, which I feel is a grave miscalculation.

I saw claims that she has had surgical and skin procedures most of us had not.

Now, Pamela Anderson was always naturally beautiful, with the “classic beauty” face. She maintained it. After a certain point, she did get fillers and botox. Eventually, she had the fillers removed and stated that she is no longer interested in those procedures in more recent interviews.

This is a pretty good breakdown of the work she has had over the years:

Many are objectively beautiful, but it takes a certain spark to become an icon like Pamela Anderson. And she still has that spark!

I keep gazing upon her. She doesn’t look like she aged in a superhuman way, like many stars these days like to portray well into their 50s. Pamela is in her late fifties. Her skin is imperfect and uneven, she’s got wrinkles, smile lines, and more.What she did NOT do, was try to maintain her same appearance that made her famous to begin with.

You may see the same signs of aging on yourself. And yet, she still radiates the same sparkling energy that helped make her a full-blown sex symbol, to begin with.

But that’s exactly the thing: she doesn’t look abnormally youthful for her age. She’s aging like a normal person, whose beauty made her famous. Pamela Anderson Make-up Free is wearing her “flaws” like a badge of honor. Now she’s embracing a side of herself beyond the beauty that turned her into an icon. She’s fully getting into her “crone” season and is no longer bound by what people think of her looks.

Aging is a funny thing, as a participant in aging myself. Pamela Anderson looks like a healthy, beautiful 50+ year old woman. This is somewhat symbolic of the way we have evolved to look at appearance. Pamela is making headlines because she was known for her looks, and that is why we praise her for embracing her natural aging process.

Pamela was already pretty–yes.

Lovely Pamela isn’t the same beauty she was many years ago, and she understands this very well. We always relish when a star loses their good looks as they age, but no one seems to be feeling this way about her. Perhaps it’s because the Make-up Free Pamela Anderson is still very pretty. Watching her embrace this type of freedom is probably one of the coolest things I have seen an aging sex symbol do, in a very long time. It’s a radical act of self-love, and I wish I could bottle it and sell it.

Pamela Anderson was and is a sex symbol, and also a beacon to those of us to be okay with not looking the same way we did in our youth. Embrace the changes as you age, and you’ll find your own beauty, too.

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