Pamela Mitchell
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Podcast Appearances
you know, we need hotter content on the site.
You guys, you're so puritanical in the US, but, you know, we're not that puritanical over here in the Netherlands, so we need hotter content.
Now, for those of you who don't know, like all that weird shit porn that's on the internet, most of that comes out of the Netherlands.
So, I understood their need for hotter content.
But I have to say, I enjoyed my job.
And I took that job just as seriously as I had taken all the rest of my jobs.
But unfortunately, the rest of my world, they didn't have that same attitude.
My mother, she didn't tell anybody where I worked for the first two months.
And my grad school roommate, didn't matter that this was an amazing job title and all that other stuff, she said, and I quote a friend of ours, I can't believe Pamela has sunk so low.
And my sister, the born again Christian one, well, she started praying for my lost soul.
But the worst moment came when I went to an internet business conference.
I went up to the microphone during the Q&A session, and I stood up there and I said, Hi, I'm Pamela Mitchell.
I'm vice president of international for Playboy.com.
And the audience started to laugh.
And I looked out over these people laughing, and I was just humiliated, like I used to be when the little kids would laugh at me when I was young.
And I thought, oh my God, this job is the biggest mistake of my life.
I have worked so hard to be taken seriously, and now people are laughing at me because of where I work.
Afterwards, I was still a little off, but I was waiting for, to speak to the moderator, and a woman comes over to me and she says, Ms.