Pamela Anderson gives fans rare stripped back look in new documentary

It’s Pamela Anderson as you rarely see her … The glam Baywatch star has offered a stripped back version of herself for an insightful new doco.

Pamela Anderson as you've never seen her – in a trailer for her new Netflix documentary.

Pamela Anderson has given fans a rare look at herself without makeup and styling.

In a new trailer for a Netflix documentary about her, the 55-year-old Baywatch star could be seen barefaced with no styling as she prepares to open up about her life story like never before.

The US actress says that recently reliving 1996 — the year her sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee was leaked — made her feel “sick”, after the controversial Hulu series Pam & Tommywas released last year.

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Pamela, A Love Story is coming to Netflix. Picture: Netflix

The star sported an uncharacteristically natural look in the trailer. Picture: Netflix

“I blocked that stolen tape out of my life in order to survive, and now that it’s all coming up again, I feel sick,” she says in the two-minute-long trailer for Pamela: A Love Story, which drops January 31.

“I wanna take control of the narrative for the first time,” the Playboy model declares.

Pamela during her Baywatch days. Entertainment / Alone

We’re used to seeing Pamela all glammed up. Picture: Liz Rosa

The infamous stolen sex tape was the centre of the recent miniseries starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan, which Anderson reportedly has not seen.

“I do know she’ll never, never watch this,” a source told Entertainment Weekly in early 2022. “Not even years from now. Not even the trailer.”

Anderson said she was taking back her story. Picture: Netflix

Elsewhere in the doco trailer, Anderson also touches on feeling like an outsider in Hollywood, admitting no one took her seriously as an actress.

Pamela Anderson defined a decade. Now she will define herself.

Pamela, a love story premieres January 31. pic.twitter.com/Chi1ofbwNv

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“I didn’t feel like I had a lot of respect,” she recalled. “I had to make a career out of the pieces left, but I’m not the damsel in distress. I put myself in crazy situations, and survived them.”

Another section shows a clip of TV personality Ruby Wax asking Anderson if she wanted to “be a serious actress,” with Anderson replying: “I am a serious actress.”

The doco shows multiple instances of how Anderson was treated by the media. Picture: Netflix

Pamela: A Love Story is, according to the show’s description, “an intimate and humanising portrait of one of the world’s most famous blonde bombshells” and “follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother.”

“Why can’t we be the heroes of our own life story? Why don’t we just do all the interviews naked?” she jokes at the end of the trailer. “There’s no mystery here.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission