Pamela Anderson tells Martha Stewart that her mother urged her to model for Playboy to heal her shyness

Pamela Anderson opened up about her early days as a Playboy model to Martha Stewart.

During a January 2025 Elle interview, Stewart spoke with Anderson about her latest film, “The Last Showgirl,” and her Oscar snub.

While immersed in his career, Anderson and Stewart take a trip down memory lane to where they first became famous.

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“Back to the movie. I can’t stop thinking about that man in the audition room. … It’s happened to all of us. Those auditions are ridiculous and heartless. You get a real sense of that,” Stewart. said, referring to Anderson’s latest film.

Pamela answered, “I would like her not to agree when she answers. She almost leaves but comes back and says, ‘What didn’t you like about it?’ Just as he wore his heart on his sleeve in reassessing his life choices, he fought back.”

Pamela Anderson had a decade-long career as a Playboy model. (Getty Images)

“I had a similar experience when I was very young, walking around as a model. They asked all the girls to bring bikinis, and after my interview with about 15 guys sitting around the table, they said, ‘Go get your bikini,'” Stewart said. .

“And I said, ‘Does the part need a bikini?’ And the boy said, ‘No, but we have you here, so we might as well watch you.’ And I just walked out of the room maybe I was 17 [years old] at that time, but I just couldn’t stand it.

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Pamela Anderson on the cover of Elle. (Adrienne Raquel)

Anderson, 57, said her mother persuaded her to model for Playboy in the 1980s. (Adrienne Raquel)

“It’s the way I’ve always been, I couldn’t stand it,” Stewart said. “When you see that other girls put up with it because they need money or they need a job, the situation is difficult. I think that might be better after all these years.”

Anderson sympathized with Stewart and explained that her mother was the main reason she decided to represent Playboy in October 1989.

“It’s hard to navigate a business based on physical beauty and naïveté. You’re in this business, and you want to please people. And you feel that maybe it’s not the right thing to do, and you can. Put yourself in these dangerous situations,” Anderson said.

“There’s the cover of Playboy [opportunity] it went up, my mother said, ‘Do it.’

— Pamela Anderson

“I was a shy little girl, if you can believe it – I wanted to do anything to stop being shy. When the cover of Playboy [opportunity] he went up, my mother said, ‘Do it.’ “I didn’t know where it was going to lead me, but it ended up leading to this crazy, crazy life,” Anderson concluded.

Martha Stewart in 1980 (Arthur Schatz/Getty Images)

In 2018, Anderson discussed her mother’s influence on her career for Playboy.

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“She was a woman who chose to be in the magazine. It was my choice to be in this magazine, I wasn’t made to do anything I didn’t like. My first reaction was no, I talked to my mother. And she said, ‘Why don’t you leave this town, go to Los Angeles,'” said -Anderson told the Associated Press at the time.

“I had never been on a plane before, I had never been out of my small town and I was scared to death of it. I overcame my painful shyness. That’s the truth.”

Anderson talked about her Oscars beauty during an interview with Elle. (Adrienne Raquel)

Now that her Playboy days are behind her, Anderson lives a quiet life in Mnambithi, British Columbia. The “Baywatch” star decided to return to acting and gardening and moved her parents to her place.

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“The Last Showgirl,” which premiered in 2024, gave Anderson Golden Globe and SAG nominations but not an Oscar nod.

Pamela Anderson starred in “The Last Showgirl” in 2024. (Everett Collection)

“Congratulations on the Golden Globe nomination. I don’t think you got an Oscar,” Stewart told Anderson.

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Pamela replied, “No, I wasn’t nominated for an Oscar, but I couldn’t even imagine that. I got a SAG nomination, which is very exciting and … all this was unexpected and exciting. I always say that winning has come into work and I have to do something that I really love, and it was necessary I have done it for my soul.”