Pamela Anderson

Canadian-American actress and model, star of the most watched TV show in history, Baywatch, a sand-sex-surf-saga marketed to more than 40 countries and watched by a billion people every week. A dyed blonde with a flashing smile, she has an impressive bust that was enhanced in 1989 just after her first Playboy pictorial.

Anderson is a prominent activist for the animal rights movement and has conducted campaigns condemning the commercial fur industry and promoting veganism through the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Her childhood was normal except that her Grandfather introduced her to metaphysical interests. She moved to Vancouver in 1988 to a job as a fitness instructor. At a football game, the camera focused on her and flashed her picture on the big screen. The crowd went wild and she was picked up by a modeling agency. In October, 1989 she moved to Los Angeles into a series of small TV roles. Baywatch turned up in 1992 and her role as Casey Jean "C.J." Parker lasted across 76 episodes until 1997. From 1998 to 2002, she played Vallery Irons in TV series V.I.P.

After a four-day courtship with "Motley Crue" drummer Tommy Lee, she married him on a beach in Mexico, February 1995, wearing a white bikini. They had a son on 5 June 1996. With stormy battles over substance abuse, she filed for divorce on 19 November 1996, Los Angeles, they reconciled five minutes later. The marriage finally broke up in spectacular demonstration of spousal abuse that took Tommy Lee to jail and Pamela to the divorce court. He kicked her once in the back and once in the buttocks. She filed a court order to keep him away.

On 22 November 1998, she filed a $12 million suit against The Globe for a story that claimed she was a heroin addict whose drug habit is jeopardizing her job.