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's modeling career would start. Pamela 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's 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 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. 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's posters were all over walls in bars and
restaurants in Canada.
Ken Honey, a freelance photographer, took a few pictures of Pamela and
talked her into submitting them to Playboy. Playboy seized the
opportunity, and Pamela was off to Los Angeles to do the cover for
their October '89 issue. The Playboy spread launched Pamela's 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 in the role of "Lisa", he knew he'd found a new lifeguard for
his new series "Baywatch". C.J. Parker, Pamela's character name on
Baywatch, was born. Pamela immediately jumped at the opportunity of
Baywatch and she says that the character of C.J. and herself are very
similar. Pamela's grandfather Herman, a native of Finland taught
Pamela 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 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 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 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 at any cost, and followed her to
Cancun. After four days of courting and endless parties, the two were
married on a beach. Pamela 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
suffered a miscarriage, both Pam and Tommy were devastated. There
wasn't really anyone or anything to blame other than the fact that
Pamela, being the hard worker that she is, was simply overworked.
Stress played it's toll on Pamela, filming Baywatch ten hours in the
sun, and then filming some more at the set of "Barb Wire". Pamela 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.