'Coming into herself': Pamela Anderson is finally... a fashion darling

Pamela Anderson was, in her most famous years, not a Met Gala kind of girl. She is now, as seen dressed in Oscar De La Renta at this year's event. Photo: AFP

Pamela Anderson never thought she would go to the Met Gala.

She was, in her most famous years, not a Met Gala kind of girl; her pictures in Playboy, not Vogue. But ahead of the first Monday in May there she was, finally, at age 56, getting ready to take her place on the red carpet at the museum.