Blond bombshell Pam Anderson goes literary

Blond bombshell Pam Anderson goes literary

LOS ANGELES – Buxom blond US 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 actress was on Tuesday criss-crossing the United States 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 24 dollars, 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 blond 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.”‘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.Her breasts came on suddenly and tenaciously, as if trying to make up for lost time,” a passage from the book, that bears a picture of a topless Anderson on its cover, reads.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.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.- Nampa-AFPThe shapely 37-year-old Canadian-born actress was on Tuesday criss-crossing the United States 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 24 dollars, 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 blond 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.”‘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.Her breasts came on suddenly and tenaciously, as if trying to make up for lost time,” a passage from the book, that bears a picture of a topless Anderson on its cover, reads.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.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.- Nampa-AFP

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