Pamela Anderson inspires hundreds of submissions for Playboy contest from models and fans recreating her most iconic magazine covers in honor of the Baywatch bombshell’s 56th birthday

Pamela Anderson has inspired a global competition in honor of her 56th birthday. 

As the Baywatch actress celebrated another year around the sun on July 1, Playboy announced they were holding a contest to see who could best recreate some of her most ‘iconic Playboy covers and pictorials.’

‘We want you to get your Pam on and shoot some fun throwback content,’ the publication told their more than 9.38 million Instagram followers. ‘(Fun fact: she’s been on more Playboy covers than anyone in the history of the brand – 14!)’

Additionally, the outlet encouraged fans to write in the captions of their posts about what the bombshell has done over her legendary career to ‘inspire’ them.

Almost immediately, hundreds of models, content creators and fans flocked to recreate some of the actress’ most famous spreads, including one of her looking armed and dangerous as she held a pink gun and a matching, barely-there bikini top.

Honoring her legacy: Pamela Anderson has inspired a global competition in honor of her 56th birthday (seen in 2001)

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Other looks included her posing topless in just a cowboy hat, laying on red sheets in a sexy corset with a plunging neckline as well as another shot rocking a pair of tiny Daisy Dukes shorts.

The entries, which had to be submitted by July 11 for consideration, appear to be particularly competitive.

Earlier this year, Anderson revealed that the only man who ever treated her with respect was the late founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner. 

Anderson holds the record for being on the most Playboy covers, but since Hefner’s death in 2017 at the age of 91, his legacy has been scarred by controversy and multiple allegations of abuse. 

While speaking to The Times, Anderson recalled hating that being ‘painfully shy’ as a kid. 

‘I just didn’t want that feeling any more,’ she recalled. 

Describing the positive effects of her first pictorial, the model said: ‘Doing that first photoshoot gave me this little kind of portal on what it felt like to be a sensual woman. My sexuality was mine. I took my power back.’

Still, during her Netflix documentary, Pamela: A Love Story, Anderson confessed that she wasn’t thinking about having children when she posed for Playboy. 

Iconic looks: As the Baywatch actress celebrated another year around the sun on July 1, Playboy announced they were holding a contest to see who could best recreate some of her most ‘iconic Playboy covers and pictorials’ (pictured in 1992)

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After welcoming her sons she’d hoped that she would be able to speak to them about it before they found out on their own. 

Unfortunately, her children were told about her career before she got a chance to tell them and also revealed they were taunted at school after her sex tape with their father and her ex-husband Tommy Lee was stolen.

Pamela explained: ‘I wasn’t thinking when I was in Playboy that I was going to have kids soon and they were gonna grow up and it was gonna be embarrassing for them.’

She went on: ‘But I always thought I’d tell them, age-appropriate – but I never got the chance – they always found out before I could really talk to them about it… But a tape of your parents having sex is another level.’

Brandon, now 26, confessed: ‘When I was a kid I thought everyone knew things about me and my family that they never should’ve known. Everyone had this dirty little secret about my family.

‘I just remember in school if anyone ever brought up my mum I was very quick to fight. I would flush with anger.’

An emotional Pamela recalled: ‘I remember one day after school Dylan came to me in tears and he was like, “mum why did you do that tape?” I was like “oh gosh really, we didn’t make a sex tape.”‘

Dylan, 25, then revealed it would have ‘been a different story if she did cash in on the tape’, explaining: ‘She 100 percent cared about her family being ok and me being ok. She didn’t care about the money.’

‘We want you to get your Pam on and shoot some fun throwback content,’ the publication told their more than 9.38 million Instagram followers. ‘Fun fact: she’s been on more Playboy covers than anyone in the history of the brand – 14!’ (seen in 1991)

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Almost immediately, hundreds of models, content creators and fans flocked to recreate some of the actress’ most famous spreads, including one of her looking armed and dangerous as she held a pink gun and rocked a matching, barely-there bikini top (Anderson seen in 1995)

Brandon went on to add that he ‘wished’ she’d made money from the tape, noting: ‘She’d have made millions of dollars instead she sat back with nothing and watched her career fizzle.’

Pamela has consistently stated that she and her ex never saw any money from the widely circulated sex tape.

The tape was stolen in 1995 by Rand Gauthier, an electrician who had done work on the couple’s house. After Tommy refused to pay him for the work he had done, he stole a massive safe from their garage.

Family: Pamela’s kids were told about career before she got a chance to tell them and also revealed they were taunted at school after her sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee was stolen (Brandon and Tommy pictured with their mom in May 2023)

It was only after he had a chance to go through the contents that he learned that the footage from the sex tape had been locked away in the safe.

The tape was later obtained by Seth Warshavsky, who initially streamed the video online, before trying to set up a distribution agreement with Pamela and Tommy.

The couple eventually signed the agreement to cut down on their stresses over lawsuits, but the agreement — which Pam reportedly thought would confine distribution to online — ended up being much broader than she believed.

Family: Pamela’s kids (seen above with their dad Tommy Lee) 

With the agreement signed, Warshavsky then licensed the video out to a video company to print physical copies for sale in adult stores.

Sales of the tape reportedly generated hundreds of millions in dollars, but none of that money was making its way back to Pam and Tommy.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the couple then filed a copyright suit for the physical distribution. As they had made the tape together — and not just starred in it — they were considered the copyright holders.

The couple were eventually awarded $740,000 each in a judgement against Warshavsky, but he reportedly never paid either of them.

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