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Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

16 reviews

missjmart's review

adventurous dark funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Pamela Anderson is not someone I expected to find myself reading a memoir about, but I am glad I did. 

Her story starts at childhood and talks about all the craziness up to her performance in New York as Roxie in Cabaret. And I feel like it’s really an insight into a woman people never really got to know. 

She describes her life events as both a diary and as poetry blending the two styles. It’s well written and full of background on the events I saw on TV or in magazines. 

I really enjoyed this. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Rape, Alcoholism, Car accident, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Suicide

gretchenplz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

This memoir was a good companion to her Netflix documentary, but it didn't offer anything new.

Also, she lost me in the epilogue when she preached about her dog being vegan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug abuse

lulubeth's review

dark hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug use

paigicus's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage

iinasomnia's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Drug use, Misogyny, Stalking, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexism

lesty_gibbs's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

Echoing other reviews, her structure is quite non-linear, especially at the start, and that made it a bit difficult for me to get into, but once I could I really enjoyed this! I sort of knew of Pamela before reading, and picked this up because of an interview she did for Variety, and I found her captivating. 

This memoir is incredibly empathetic, clever, and thoughtful. For someone who was so incredibly abused, so frequently, by so many people, she still holds so much joy and appreciation for life, which really shines through. Her prose is really authentic, like you’re having a conversation with her. I also loved her poetry. I’m really glad I picked this up, started and finished it in a day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Car accident, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content