Pamela Anderson on How ‘Empowering’ It Is to Go Makeup-Free at 57
Pamela Anderson opened up about her makeup-free journey.
The 57-year-old said embracing her “imperfections” is “really empowering.”
“I’m definitely much happier now,” Anderson explained.
These days, Pamela Anderson is all about embracing her authentic self. The star made waves with her choice to go makeup-free at Paris Fashion Week in September of 2023, as well as when she showed off her “natural beauty” at the 2024 Met Gala with a bit of light makeup after going au natural for so long. Now, after being crowned one of Glamour’s 2024 Women of the Year, Anderson is opening up about her “beauty journey” and her path toward “self-acceptance.”
Anderson, who insisted on keeping up with her no-makeup trend for the Glamour cover shoot, was previously known for her iconic bombshell smokey eyes and glossy lips from the ’90s. The star previously explained that she reached a turning point when her makeup artist, Alexis Vogel, died from breast cancer. “Since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it’s just better for me not to wear makeup,” Anderson said at the time.
“I’ve just done it and I’ve played with it,” she added of cosmetics in her recent Glamour interview. “I’ve nothing against makeup, but I felt like it just looked better on me in my 20s than it did now.”
Anderson also spoke of the idea of hitting “a crossroads in your 50s” and thinking to herself: “Am I going to chase youth? Am I going to be miserable? Or am I going to be self-accepting?” she revealed. “And it’s a practice.” The star added that it doesn’t feel authentic to say she’s making that type of effort if she is still “plastered in makeup” while attending events and posing for magazine covers.
“This process is really empowering. I know it seems a little bit crazy. I’m also trying to find myself and who I am, kind of, underneath it all and trying to peel back the layers,” she added. “And we’re women or whoever, anybody—what we look like underneath the mask is still good enough for a cover of a magazine.”
The star explained she is “having a big moment” right now in accepting the “scars” and “imperfections” she has. “It’s important, no matter where you are in your beauty journey, to accept yourself as you are.”
She added: “I think, instead of trying to be this polished person, I’d rather be raw. One eye is smaller than the other, my nose is crooked, my lips are weird. Everyone is weird. Everyone has imperfections.”
Despite Anderson’s imperfections, she feels better now than when she attempted to cover them up with makeup, adding that she “felt like a failure” for about the last two decades of her life. “I’m definitely much happier now,” she explained.
We applaud Anderson for her vulnerability in sharing this journey of self-acceptance with her fans, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for the star.
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