Pamela Anderson inspires Drew Barrymore to go makeup-free for talk show: ‘Isn’t it freeing?’
No makeup, no problem.
Pamela Anderson, 57, has been going makeup-free since Paris Fashion Week in September 2023, and now other celebrities are following suit — the latest being Drew Barrymore, 49, and Valerie Bertinelli, 64.
The three women discussed the actress’ new no-makeup movement in a preview for an Oct. 22 episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” where they all opted to go fresh-faced for the interview.
“I really think you own this space,” Barrymore tells Anderson in the beginning of the clip. “I think you’re the pioneer of what we’re certainly doing here today.”
Anderson responded, “Isn’t it freeing? Doesn’t it feel free? I feel free. I mean, it’s taken a while, too; I’ve had my little, you know, journey with it, but we all are our own worst critics.”
Bertinelli chimes in, asking when Anderson started embracing and feeling comfortable without any beauty products. From there, the model spoke about her reasoning for doing so in the first place.
“I was at Paris Fashion Week and decided I was just going to a fashion show. I didn’t need to compete with anybody. Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I have these beautiful Vivenne Westwood clothes on? And I didn’t realize anyone would even notice,” Anderson said.
She added, “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.”
The author continued, saying how she’s felt like she’s played characters throughout her life, and was painfully shy as a kid. “Even doing Playboy was a huge leap of faith for me,” she added.
“It just hit me a couple of years ago, and I was like, you know, just shaking my head, going, ‘Who am I?’ 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,” Anderson explains.
“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,” she concluded.
Since her viral Paris Fashion Week appearance, which sparked praise from fellow celebs including Jamie Lee Curtis and Scarlett Johansson, the “Baywatch” alum has continuously stepped out fresh-faced.
Last Saturday, for example, Anderson attended The Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala sans makeup. She opted for a chic black gown from The Row’s resort 2025 collection.
She’s also starred in ad campaigns au natural and in magazine photoshoots — though she did also agree to sport a smokey eye as she served as the face for Smashbox’s latest advertisements.
Anderson, who launched her own skincare line, Sonsie, in January, even recently declared in an interview that people “never liked” her before she stopped wearing makeup.
