Becca Anderson
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136 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Becca Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And at different times, I felt like different people. But my first plane ride was to Los Angeles and then to the Playboy Mansion. Yeah, so it just was one thing after another. And I had this amazing, wild, you know, messy life.
And that gave me a lot to pull from when I was playing this character, but other characters, I feel like my pockets are full of experience, I can access these emotions and this these times in my life. And naturally, it's something that I enjoy doing, but I've been doing it since I was little. I just didn't realize this was a business and this is the way it was going to work out.
So I'm kind of set up for this in a way.
Because I think people are fighting invisible battles and we need to be kind to each other. And I thought that was the message I was trying to parlay. But also that's how I feel. And I talked about it before in a very small group. And then somebody picked up on that and made it more widely known. And so I felt like in the documentary it was important for me to address.
But also there's many people out there that have gone through... you know, similar things. And I want them to know that they can still realize their dreams. I feel like I've never looked at my life as a woe is me. I've always looked at this made me stronger and this is, and that just life is hard for everybody. And this is where art is born.
You know, Suzanne Somers had a great line. She said, you can't play a dumb blonde and be a dumb blonde. So part of it was just, I think I had to have a sense of humor, but I also found ways to, if people were going to talk that way to me, I wanted to bring up something meaningful to me, like animal rights. And I found that I could share the attention with something more meaningful and
And that gave me some relief to know that I could travel anywhere in the world for whatever reason if it was Baywatch or Playboy and I could talk about animal rights. And that's what I've been doing to this point. And this is when my sons kind of stepped in and said, Mom, but... We want to tell your story because we know you're capable of so much more too in your career.
And it's time to focus on you and your career. And you can still do favors for other people, but to focus on what you love. People always ask me, why didn't you do these movie roles? I said, well, these movie roles were not being presented to me. and the relationships really were taking over my life. And I was raising two boys in kind of a chaotic environment where I needed to be with them.
And from my own experience as a child, I wanted to be with them. I didn't want anybody to look after them other than me.
Right. Well, that's part of it. And yeah, I did a lot of favors for friends. I got to work with a lot of incredible photographers and do cameos. If it was either for even my brother's friends, I just felt like, okay, they can get this movie made if I do this little funny thing as myself. But these weren't good for me. These were good for other people. And that's what my kids were saying.
You've got to stop doing that, mom. Like, you get to be you now. You get to challenge yourself. And I've always been carrying this secret. I feel like I've known I was capable of more, but I didn't know what. And doing Broadway really excited me and really felt like, oh, you know, I do have a lot to give. Because if I can do that, I can do anything.
Well, and it was wonderful because they wanted me to do the role full strength, not watered down. They knew I was capable of it. And so it was, I don't know if I could sing or dance or act on stage, but I felt very comfortable, not comfortable on stage, just free. And I felt like I was home on stage. I really loved it, even though it was so scary.
You're vibrating backstage before you get out there. But when you get out there, you just feel safe. You feel like no one can hurt you out there.
It was another feeling just like this where I was a painfully shy girl and I hated that about myself. I hated it. It was debilitating. It was paralyzing. And I needed to do something to break free of that. And that was why I said yes to Playboy, not thinking that I could ever. It was just a cover. It wasn't nudity or anything. This was just the cover.
And then once I came to Los Angeles and did the cover, they talked me into becoming a playmate. I remember calling my mother and her going, do it. I would do it. I said, okay.
Yes, she said that. And so I did it. And I was also looking after my parents. And I remember up until then, I was still giving half of my paychecks to my parents. I thought everybody did that. And So it was nice to be able to pay off some bills for all of us. And I've done that since then. I've looked after my family. And it's just what I feel is important to do.
It's just a tiny town, one street of stores. And my grandmother had this little auto court called Arkady Auto Court. And she lived here after my grandfather passed and had nine little cabins. And so I've kind of recreated this little It's similar to what my grandmother had with these cabins, and I've moved my parents onto the property. It's beautiful, rocky mountains and lots of trees.
It's a rainforest. I live in a rainforest, and there's the beach. I live on the East Coast, so the tides are high and very, very low, and I have a long dock on I don't have a boat, but I have paddle boards and kayaks. It's a very peaceful place to be. And I'm glad I came home.
There was a few times they'd come up to me. Actually, one time I was at a bus stop and someone came up to me and asked me, because I was standing next to an advertisement of myself. I was getting the bus and there was a bus ad of me at the fitness center that I used to work at, the tanning salon at. They asked me to do their ads. So then I, someone said, is that you? And I said, yes.
And he goes, oh, I'm so-and-so from Playboy. Would you consider shooting for Playboy? And I was like, absolutely not. I would never do that. And then Marilyn Grabowski called me at my house because my number was listed, you know, just called Pamela Anderson, Kitsilano Beach. And she found me. and on the phone I was having an argument with my boyfriend or fiancé at the time, actually.
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