Pamela Anderson wears a Gucci dress and shoes; Magda Butrym sunglasses; Pandora earrings; Julie Kegels tights.
At home, her sons, Brandon, now 30, and Dylan, now 28, had trouble reconciling the figure the world thought it knew with the doting mum who had their baseball games written into her contracts and cherished her sourdough starter like a third child. It was Brandon who encouraged Anderson to make the 2023 Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story. “Brandon said, ‘Mum, no one knows that you garden. No one knows that you cook,’” says Anderson, who initially resisted the idea of a documentary because she didn’t feel any obligation to defend the decisions she made in her life. This was no grand redemption arc. “I said, ‘Well, I didn’t save anything. I don’t have anything, so I don’t know what you’re going to use. But if you do it, I don’t want to see it,’” she says, laughing at the fact that she had a shipping container and an attic overflowing with journals and videos from the ’90s.
Like typical twentysomethings, her sons didn’t listen to their mother, with Brandon co-producing the raw and heartfelt portrait of Anderson’s life. In 2024, he also founded And-Her-Sons, the production company he shares with Anderson and Dylan. “I know I may watch it one day just for maybe research,” says Anderson of the project. “I don’t know, but it was funny when Netflix said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to see it because you’re gonna have to promote it.’ I said, ‘I was there; I do know what happened!”