Pamela Anderson Inspires Drew Barrymore and Valerie Bertinelli to Go Makeup-Free on National TV

Drew Barrymore and Valerie Bertinelli have found inspiration in Pamela Anderson!

In a preview of the Tuesday, Oct. 22 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show posted on Instagram and TikTok on Monday, Oct. 21, Barrymore, 49, and Bertinelli, 64, appear barefaced alongside Anderson, 57, who has been attending events makeup-free since Paris Fashion Week in September 2023.

"I really think you own this space. I think you're the pioneer of what we're certainly doing here today," Barrymore tells Anderson at the start of the video.

"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," says Anderson before explaining why she began her makeup-free movement.

"I was at Paris Fashion Week and decided [if] 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 Vivian Westwood clothes on," she continues. "And I didn't realize anyone would even notice. 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."

Anderson tells Barrymore and Bertinelli that she has felt as if she "played characters" her entire life.

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"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," she says. "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. ' "

The model told Barrymore and Bertinelli, "This is the best time in my life."

"I feel so empowered and so free and so excited about life again," she adds before the clip ends with Barrymore taking her hair extensions out. "If we're really gonna be honest here," she told the audience as hair flew through the air.

In the full episode, Anderson spoke about the source of her glowing skin, Sonsie Skin, which she is owner and cofounder of. "The boys [sons Brandon and Dylan] had a friend who started this company that aligned with the same values as me and I thought, let's just take this company since they're already going, and let's just embrace it and bring it to life," she said.

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When Bertinelli noted that it's cruelty free, Anderson replied, "Of course! I've been doing cruelty free for 30-something years. I was annoying. Everyone was like, "Oh no, here comes the vegan. Thanks God it's in fashion now."

At the close of the segment, Anderson gifted the audience her Multi Moisture Mask.

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