Kaia Gerber Reveals Pamela Anderson Was Her Crossing Guard in Elementary School: 'She Wore the Yellow Vest’

Mar. 15, 2025

Kaia Gerber and Pamela Anderson.Photo:Mike Marsland/Getty; Karwai Tang/WireImage

Mike Marsland/Getty; Karwai Tang/WireImage

Kaia GerberandPamela Andersongo way back.

In anew interviewwithThe Hollywood Reporterpublished on Nov. 20, theBottomsactress, 23, said the “most Hollywood thing” that has happened in her life was going to school with theBaywatchstar (well, kind of).

Gerber revealed that Anderson, now 57, was actually the crossing guard at her elementary school and, despite her celebrity, “wore the yellow safety vest and everything.”

“I didn’t know how good I had it then,” she added.

In a 2008 interview onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, Anderson talked about her everyday job in Los Angeles while balancing her glitzy Las Vegas gig in Hans Klok: The Beauty of Magic.

Pamela Anderson.Jon Kopaloff/Getty

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“I’m safety patrol on Mondays at my sons' school with the neon vest and everything. It’s really hot,” the mom of two said, perCBS News.

“You help the children out to get to school,” she added. “You help them out of the car and then you shut the door.”

And because of her flight schedule — and the early wake-up calls to get her kids ready for school — Anderson would show up to work with her glam stage makeup still on. “I get in around 3 or 4 in the morning and I’m up at 6:30 a.m. with my kids making breakfast, 8 a.m. at school and who washes their face? People always look at me funny anyway,” she said.

“I get a lot of high fives. [Other parents] think it’s funny that I’m there doing that. I’m a mom. you have to do it and I love it.”

Kaia Gerber in Valentino at ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ and Instagram’s Next Gen party.Michael Kovac/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Michael Kovac/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

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Gerber, whose parents are supermodelCindy Crawfordand businessmanRande Gerber, is one ofThe Hollywood Reporter’s “10 Hottest Young Stars in Hollywood,” alongside Kit Connor, Ryan Destiny, David Jonsson, Katy O’Brian, Aaron Pierre, Josh Rivera, Dominic Sessa, Sophie Wilde and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai.

She’s recognized for her budding onscreen career (she starred inPalm RoyaleandSaturday Nightthis year and is set to be inMotherMaryandOutcomealongside Anne Hathaway and Keanu Reeves respectively) and her book club, Library Science.

source: people.com