Pamela Anderson has been heaped with praise for her ‘courageous’ choice to go makeup-free in recent weeks.
And the Baywatch beauty, 56, revealed the reason why she’s begun embracing her natural beauty while speaking to ELLE in August.
She told the outlet that her perspective on beauty changed after the death of her makeup artist Alexis Vogel, who passed away from breast cancer in 2019.
‘[Alexis] was the best. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it’s just better for me not to wear makeup,’ Pamela explained.
She said that going without makeup has been ‘freeing, and fun, and a little rebellious too.’
‘Because I did notice that there were all these people doing big makeup looks, and it’s just like me to go against the grain and do the opposite what everyone’s doing.’
Pamela also remarked on aging and how it’s been a ‘journey’ for her.
‘I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older. And I’m kind of laughing at myself when I look at the mirror. I go, “Wow, this is really…what’s happening to me?” It’s a journey.
‘I feel rooted for. I feel good. I’m in a good place.’
Her decision to ditch cosmetics also stemmed from feelings that she often ‘just went along with what people were telling me what to do’ in the early days of her career.
In a more recent interview with ET, Pamela dished that when she does wear makeup that she prefers a more muted look.
‘The 90s was the 90s, and now it’s 2023. I like to do things that are different, I feel like… [and] this is a new chapter of my life,’ she told Entertainment Tonight.
‘Natural beauty still takes two hours in front of a mirror. It’s funny because, you know, I’m always in the garden now.
‘I always have dirt under my nails. So it’s nice to wear diamonds just to glam it up a little bit.’
This week Academy Award-winner Jamie Lee Curtis applauded Pamela for going barefaced and called the decision an ‘act of courage and rebellion.’
She then declared ‘the natural beauty revolution has officially begun!’
Jamie wrote on her Instagram page on Monday: ‘Pamela Anderson in the middle of fashion week with so many pressures and postures, and and and, this woman showed up and claimed her seat at the table with nothing on her face.
‘I am so impressed and floored by this act of courage and rebellion.’
Pamela went makeup-free as she attended the Isabel Marant Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show at Place Colette in Paris on Thursday.
The screen star cut a chic figure in a figure-hugging lime dress, which showed off her toned figure.
Pamela teamed the ensemble with a pair of beige wrap heels and a matching studded purse.
She also ditched the makeup as she sat front row at the Victoria Beckham Paris Fashion Week show on Friday alongside an A-list crowd.
