A review by michaelgreenreads
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

inspiring

5.0

HMMMM! Hmmmmm! hmmmmmmmm! I didn’t expect to pick this book up, and I am torn: I found comfort reading this book while I was healing from an injury… but the more I think about it…. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm 

 

In some ways we’d be better off if more celebrities were more like Pamela Anderson (she is sharp! canadian! legitimately loves poetry and rewilding gardens!). But even though people are portraying this moment as a Pamela renaissance, people need to put on their thinking caps. 

 

To unpack in bullet points: 

 

⭐️ As a Canadian and vegetarian I will say that Pamela teaming up with powerful Russians to take on the Indigenous-led seal hunt in Canada (with one rich man offering her a famous Nazi's car???) is concerning and more than a little weird to include uncritically. 

 

⭐️ Given the nonconsensual nature of her and Tommy’s videos being stolen, a lot of cultural critics should be losing their jobs for treating the sex tape as fun fluff. 

 

⭐️ Oh lord Tim Allen flashing her on the set of Home Improvement because he “saw her naked first” ( 🥴🥴🥴 creep!!!!!!!!) 

 

⭐️ The poetry that is interlaced throughout the entire book isn’t **all that** but she built her memoir around a scaffolding of poetry (with no ghostwriter!) which is interesting for a celebrity to do! 

 

⭐️ Given the number of intense moments she describes, it is amazing that the book has an unfazed tone. But I wish we got more than unfazed and more than 4 pages per life event! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯