The Last Nude: Pamela Anderson’s 14 Playboy Covers
In October 2015, Playboy announced that it will no longer publish full nudes —and today on Twitter, Playboy announced that Pamela Anderson will be the last full nude in the January/February 2016 issue, photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth, well known for her work in high-fashion erotica. This will be Anderson’s 14th time on the cover of the magazine, from her first cover in October 1989 half-dressed in a schoolboy blazer to the iconic June 1998 cover featuring the four babes of Baywatch. She has been in 15 pictorials within the publication. “I got a call from Hef’s attorney who said, ‘We don’t want anybody else. There’s nobody else, could you do the last cover of Playboy?’” Anderson told Entertainment Tonight.
Anderson admitted herself that Hugh Hefner’s ideal of the “girl next door” posing nude is outdated. “It’s hard to compete with the Internet. And the girl next door doesn’t exist anymore,” she said. “She’s taking selfies down her shirt, like, you know, there’s no mystery over there anymore. It doesn’t have that same charm and innocence that it used to.” Back in October 2015, Playboy’s chief executive Scott Flanders told The New York Times that the old Playboy formula of centerfold nudes was over. “That battle has been fought and won,” he said. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”
For her last Playboy shoot, the 48-year-old icon says she took off all of her clothes and rolled down the hill as fast as she could: “I was just screaming, and hair and boobs were flying, and shoes were going everywhere.” Ironically, even though Anderson appears to have been confident and open about her bombshell body her entire life, she admits to moments of insecurity and has never looked at her own Playboy photos. “I never look at pictures,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I always like to do the pictures and even my friend David LaChapelle, who I shoot with all the time, says, ‘You’re the only person who never wants to see the pictures.’” She also added, “I had a rough few years where I felt a little insecure, 'cause you know everyone’s getting older.”
Here are all 14 of Pamela Anderson’s Playboy covers, from age 22 to age 48, and always with Baywatch blonde hair.
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