Over the weekend, I belatedly watched Netflix’s Pamela Anderson documentary, in which the Baywatch star speaks about having a boob job in the 1990s. It meant, Anderson explained, that she was seen as fair game - people felt entitled to ask her about her breasts constantly, making judgements and endless jokes at her expense.
I don’t think it’s difficult to draw a line from the sexist treatment of women like Anderson to those in the public eye today — such as Kylie Jenner, who has just admitted to having had a breast augmentation when she was 19. In an episode of The Kardashians, Jenner said that she didn’t want her five-year-old daughter, Stormi, to feel the same pressure.
