Pamela Anderson graced The Drew Barrymore Show today with a refreshing no-makeup look, continuing the empowering trend she’s embraced in recent years. But she didn’t do it alone—Drew Barrymore and lifestyle expert Valerie Bertinelli followed suit, going bare-faced for an intimate conversation on the power of natural beauty and Anderson’s journey to fully embracing it.
“I really think you own this space. I think you’re the pioneer of what we’re certainly doing here today,” Barrymore told Anderson at the start of their conversation, as revealed in a social media teaser.
“Isn’t it freeing? Doesn’t it feel free? I feel free. I mean, it’s taken a while to; I’ve had my little, you know, journey with it, but we all are our own worst critics,” she shared. Bertinelli then asked when she truly began embracing and feeling comfortable with this new chapter of self-acceptance.
“I was at Paris Fashion Week and I decided [if] I was just going to a fashion show, I didn’t need to compete with anybody,” Anderson explained. “Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I have these beautiful Vivian Westwood clothes on? And I didn’t realize anyone would even notice. So then, when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, ‘Well, this is a great message.’ You know, to really peel it back and find out who I was again. I wanted to remember who I was.”
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In recent years, Anderson has found a deeper connection with herself after spending much of her life in acting roles that, she hinted, caused her to lose sight of who she really was. “It just hit me a couple of years ago, and I was like, you know, just shaking my head, going, ‘Who am I?” she revealed. “You know, and that’s when I went home into my garden and started planting things and getting into nature and going back to the trees that knew me since birth. I bought my grandmother’s property and renovated it, and I just started taking it all back. And then started peeking out without makeup. And then I started realizing, ‘Oh, I feel great as me.'”
