Just to note before we get started that abuse is mentioned in this episode.

Hello and welcome to How to Fail. For those that are new here, this is the podcast that

looks at how failure has shaped our lives and what, if anything, we have learned from those failures.

I have a very special episode for you today in partnership with the Dove Self-Esteen Project.

The Dove Self-Esteen Project is an amazing initiative supported by science-backed methodology

that we can all introduce into our lives to help us improve our

relationship with our bodies. And I'll be sharing some of these exercises a little later on in the

episode. I could not be more excited about my guest today, the iconic Pamela Anderson.

She's brought three failures or lessons learned, as she doesn't like the word

failure, and as you know, neither do I. And we'll be taking a look at how the 2000s were a seminal

decade, but one that might also have taken its toll on our self-esteem. I do hope you enjoy this

episode with Pamela. Every so often on how to fail, I get to interview someone

who defines a cultural epoch. Pamela Anderson is one of those women. She was born in Canada to a

repairman father and waitress mother. At the age of 21, she was featured by chance on a stadium screen

at a local football game. That moment led to a modelling contract and later the first of many

offers from Playboy. Acting was her next step. In the 90s, she gained global recognition as

C.J. Parker in the TV series Baywatch. Posterers of Anderson

in the famed red swimsuit adorned many a teenager's wall, and she became the absolute embodiment

of a specific, sexy, blonde beauty. Film roles followed, including the lead in 1996's Barb Wire.

Along the way, she had two beloved sons and became a vocal advocate for the animal rights

organisation, Peter.

But the second act of her career has been her most powerful.

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