Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

24 reviews

brookehamm's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Poetic and beautifully written 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, and Child abuse

smashingreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

  

Prior to listening to this audiobook, the only thing I knew about Pamela was her face and that she played on Baywatch. I was delightfully surprised to learn how humble and free Pamela is. The memoir touches on a few traumas in her life, but her overall mindset seems to lie with an appreciation of herself, her life, and everything around her. I appreciated her unabashed view on sex – the lack of shame surrounding sex is refreshing – and the way she sees beauty in most things. 

 

A lot of things in Pamela’s life, at least in the way it is written in this memoir, appear to be handed to her or just work out so well. Because I don’t know anything about Pamela outside of this book, it’s hard to know if this is how smoothly everything truly went for her or if this is mostly written this way because of her reliance on manifestation. She does describe some of the abuse from Tommy, but it comes across as very soft around the edges. 

 

I loved reading about how much love Pamela has towards her boys. It made me want to move to the beach for some before-school surfing. 

 

One of the things I’ve been enjoying with memoirs, in general, is the unapologetic presentation of self. Reading about people who are, or appear to be, living their lives as their true selves is refreshing and inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

frawst_disasta_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

I hadn’t planned on reading this memoir, but Audible offered it to me for either $2.99 or $3.99.  I’m so glad I did.  It’s such a great memoir.  There are such sad moments, but Pamela also focuses on the beauty.  Plus this way I learned more of her activism.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

dakdoesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad

3.75

I have a lot of conflicting thoughts that I need to summarize…

1) I absolutely loved the sections where Pamela talks about her non-profit work and her activism. I wish that more celebrities used their platforms for this kind of work.
2)I could not stand the way she excused male behavior in her life. To each their own of course but her lack of criticism for the men that hurt her and others was jarring for me considering the forgiveness implied by her words. 

Overall, this book was really well written and I think parts of Pamela’s story are really powerful. She captures her own spirit in a way that does her justice and shines a light on her humanity. Docked off a star-ish because I wished for her to reflect more deeply on her privileges in life as a star and I wish there had been some more discussion around the harmful men she encounters. But, it’s her book, not mine! I’m still a fan and love her honesty, mission, and nature. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Rape, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

ninebookishlives's review

informative inspiring sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, and Child abuse

probablypsychic's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking and Addiction

sourcherryyy's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

she is so elle woods coded with her animal activism, i just wish she didnt work with peta so much :( i liked hearing about her life and how spiritual she is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage and Animal cruelty

foofy777's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Child abuse

katndrsn's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Stalking

vapidtroll's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

Pamela Anderson is a very smart, empathetic, and full of love. This is a memoir that needed to be written. Anderson takes back her story and tells it on her own terms. Fascinating read.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Rape