How Pamela Anderson influenced 90s aesthetics

Pam & Tommy is the TV series produced by Hulu and available from February 2 on Disney+ which tells the end of the love between Pamela Anderson and the then boyfriend Tommy Lee following the unauthorized dissemination of their sex-tape, which destroyed the relationship and brought revolutionary consequences for the iconic lifeguard of Baywatch and model Playboy, manifesting the voyeuristic inclinations of the Internet and the world of porn. Following the events played by Lily James, Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen in the representation of the figure of Pamela Anderson, the actress of Baywatch resurfaces from the memory of pop culture in the role of icon of a generation grown under the auspices of his silhouette, that consecrated her as a sex symbol in American culture and not.

Pamela Anderson’s debut was on Playboy in 1989, when she posed for her first cover. " I was so tense that I threw up when an assistant accidentally touched my breasts," he tells the New York Times. Since then, 14 other covers have been released, a record number for a model in the adult entertainment magazine, in which Pamela stands out as the model preferred by Hugh Hefner, the only one who knows how to recognize the pieces of art within the Mansion. The rounded eyebrows recall the silent cinema of the 1930s and the obsession with old-fashioned tweezers, while the dry body and breast implants speak of an explicit sensuality, which does not go unnoticed. Responsible for influencing the concept of beauty in the 1990s, Pamela Anderson focused her attention on the rupture of the breast and an aesthetic strongly linked to the world of porn that changed society in terms of inclinations and habits both in intimacy and in the audience.

More specifically, the actress of British Columbia has consecrated the power of plastic surgery in the aesthetics of the 90s, able to make the forms more voluminous to be up to the ideal imposed by the TV series of the moment, the porn and the sex symbols that animated it. A bit like the Kardashian effect has affected the new generations, creating an increase in desire on plastic surgery operations and the Brazilian Butt Lift, "The same thing happened with the Pamela Anderson effect - or Baywatch effect - in the 1990s. I think it’s clear that celebrity icons have a strong impact on popularity (of trends in surgery)," said surgeon Mark Mofid in an interview with VICE, confirming the impact of his image in contemporary culture. Demand for breast implants in America grew exponentially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, due to an FDA moratorium prohibiting the use of silicone implants in the earlier period due to a lack of safety in the surgical procedure. In 1992, period of this full prohibition anti-silicone, Pamela Anderson ran in slow motion on the beach of Miami Beach in Baywatch, with her breasts in synchro to the music in the background, making even cooler the TV series and the image of the actress daughter of the house Playboy.

The TV series, a piece of history of the 1990s, communicated an ideal of well-defined beauty to the spectators of the time. The oiled and tanned bodies of a group of boys in the midst of post-adolescence, between love intrigues and the first dramas of life, have conquered millions of viewers selling an image made of sea view, beautiful girls and daily risk. The character of Pamela Anderson is the typical girl next door with a strong passion for holistic disciplines, interested in Christians, spirituality and mental well-being, values in common with the actress, in the body of a fitness supermodel. An ideal of beauty that invades society subtly through sexual expectations and desires doesn’t seem like anything new, and Pamela Anderson is, if not the founder, a representative of the genre of the early '90s. The look of tanned goddess, toned and with a prosperous breast is an archetype of woman born in the imagination of the authors of the series of the 80s, with a natural innocence in total contrast to the look of the beautiful actress, decidedly Y2K.

With a non-chalance to take your breath away combined with a verve decidedly punk-rock - here’s the wedding with the star of the Motley Crew - the blue eyes and the physical characteristics that are well known, Pamela Anderson has made of each of her releases a red carpet: legs and breasts well on display, a femininity velatamente aggressive, communicated with transparencies and slipped tissues that emphasize the body. The decidedly American ensembles composed of t-shirts and black cap at the 11th Harley Davidson convention, opera gloves and cotton blond hair are the background to a living myth of femininity made in the Playboy house. Her influence in defining the '90s aesthetics coincides with the power of the sexyness that Playboy and his role in Baywatch gave her, and therefore also with the concept of celebrity.