How Pamela Anderson Reinvented Herself After “Pam & Tommy”

Though she’s been makeup free for quite some time now, her natural look sparked a wave of praise when she appeared at Paris Fashion Week in September. After sitting front row at numerous shows, her bare face beaming from ear to ear, she told Vogue France that the decision to stop wearing makeup came as a natural transition.

“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 said. “I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room. I feel like it’s just freedom. It’s a release.”

Garnering praise from fellow A-listers like Jamie Lee Curtis and Scarlett Johansson, Pamela has inadvertently become the face of an authenticity movement among celebrities — one that seems to correspond with this new liberated stage of her life.

“I call it life-ing, not aging. Chasing youth is futile,” she recently told People magazine. “I don’t have to be cool anymore. I can just be me. It’s very freeing to be comfortable in your own skin.”