Pamela Anderson and Drew Barrymore both appeared makeup-free on the latter's talk show.
The 57-year-old Baywatch alum first went viral for opting not to wear makeup at Paris Fashion Week in 2023. "I don't know, something just kind of came over me, and I was dressing in these beautiful clothes, and I thought, ‘I don't want to compete with the clothes,'" she later told Vogue of the moment. Since then, the star has opted for the barefaced look at a multitude of public events.
Initially, Pamela said that she didn't want to be "wasting three hours" in a makeup chair during Paris Fashion Week. When people then praised her for the move, she thought that it would be a "great message" to continue.
Pamela continued, "I wanted to remember who I was. I found I played characters my whole life. I was painfully shy as a kid, even doing Playboy, for instance, was a huge leap of faith for me. I was physically sick doing it, but I didn't want to be shy anymore. I just thought, well, 'This is what my fantasy of what a model is, or a playmate is, or a rock star's wife is, or what anything is. I'm going to do it the best,' and I've been playing these characters along the way."
"It just hit me a couple of years ago, and I was just shaking my head, going, 'Who am I?' That's when I went home into my garden and started planting things and getting into nature and going back to the trees that knew me since birth," she said, explaining how she bought and renovated her grandmother's home.
"I just started taking it all back, and then started peeking out without makeup, and then I started realizing, 'Oh, I feel great as me, I don't want people to think of me as all those cartoon characters I created for protection,'" Pamela continued. "This is the best time in my life. I feel so empowered and so free and so excited about life again."
Drew then dramatically took off her hair extensions, saying, "If we're really going to be honest here, another really awesome symptom of perimenopause is you start to lose your hair."
Many of the comments subsequently expressed an emotional reaction to the clip:
The full episode will air later today.
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