It started in spite. When Pamela Anderson was approached to do her first Playboy shoot in 1989 – after being discovered on the Jumbotron at a football game in Vancouver wearing a local beer brand’s T-shirt – her boyfriend at the time forbade her from doing it. “You’re not going to do that! You’re not going to do anything,” he said, furiously.
Anderson did it anyway. To spite the boyfriend, the 22-year-old boarded her first-ever flight, to Los Angeles, and stayed in her first-ever hotel room that didn’t open directly onto the parking lot. Then she posed for the cover of the October edition of Playboy, naked except for a private-school blazer and tie, and a strategically placed straw hat. In the accompanying Q&A, Anderson was asked about her ambitions. She said she wanted to be a “wonderful wife and mother” and to “win an Oscar”.
When Anderson subsequently decided to move to LA
