“Dating Her is Like Wearing Hot Lava.”: These Wild Facts About Celebrities Left Us Speechless

Pamela Anderson’s red Baywatch swimsuit became one of the most recognizable images of the 1990s. But that fame also attracted a deeply unsettling kind of attention. At one point, Anderson discovered a stalker inside her home wearing the famous swimsuit.

The detail is so bizarre that it sounds like a scene from a thriller, but it was part of the darker side of being a global sex symbol. Her public image was everywhere, and some people blurred the line between fantasy and reality. The very outfit that made her iconic became part of a frightening invasion of her private life.