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| Pamela Anderson, actress, pin-up, now
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Pam gets literary
LOS ANGELES: Buxom blonde television
star and pin-up girl Pamela Anderson has launched an unlikely new career
– as a novelist, penning the adventures of an up-and-coming young Hollywood
actress.
After soaring to fame as the bathing suit-clad star of the
Baywatch television show, as a Playboy pin-up and through her
turbulent romances with a string of rockers, Anderson is now turning her hand to
literature.
The shapely 37-year-old Canadian-born was today criss-crossing the US signing
copies of her first book Star, written with the help of ghostwriter
Eric Shaw Quinn. Her maiden novel tells the fictional yet strangely familiar story of a
late-blooming young girl named Star Wood Leigh who rises to fame and fortune in
Hollywood on a television show called Lifeguards Inc.
Advertisements in national newspapers for the book, published by Atria and
selling for $US24, hailed it as "a sexy, sizzling beach read", and a "wildly
sexy, funny and revealing" look at Hollywood.
But while papers and television stations gave acres of coverage to the blonde
beauty's literary foray, the critics may not be so kind about the bodice-ripping
writing style.
In one scene from the 300-page tome, the pre-pubescent Star rushes to her
mother fearing she has developed a cancerous lump on her chest, which would
later become famous on her television show.
"You're not dying, you're just growing up," her mother tells Star according
to an excerpt. "Looks like you're finally going to get some boobs. You're
becoming a woman, honey. You're blooming!"
"And bloom she did," the excerpt goes on. "Her breasts came on suddenly and
tenaciously, as if trying to make up for lost time."
Anderson was famously married to bad-boy Motley Crue drummer Tommy
Lee, from whom she was acrimoniously divorced in 1998 after a three-year
on-again, off-again marriage that frequently landed their antics in the tabloid
press.
A 1996 video of the couple's honeymoon sexual escapades, which they claimed
was stolen from their home, became one of the most-sold sex videos around the
world.
The feisty mother-of-two then dated another rocker, Kid Rock, and was
briefly engaged to him, while she pursued a film and television career. - AFP
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