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Love Quote by Pamela Anderson

"Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time"

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Pamela Anderson’s line lands because it refuses the usual sanctified script around pregnancy and celebrity motherhood. Instead of offering a tasteful anecdote, she gives a bodily, funny, slightly shocking truth: pleasure and nausea aren’t opposites, they’re roommates. The punch is in the collision of registers. “Making love” sounds almost old-fashioned and romantic; “throw up” is blunt, unglamorous, aggressively physical. Putting them in the same sentence pops the balloon of curated femininity and replaces it with something messier and, paradoxically, more intimate.

The intent feels twofold: to normalize what’s usually edited out (pregnancy as a chaotic sensory experience) and to reclaim agency inside it. Morning sickness is often framed as something that happens to a woman; here, she frames sex and happiness as something she does, even while her body revolts. That’s not a Hallmark version of empowerment; it’s a pragmatic, embodied one.

There’s also a knowing wink at Anderson’s public image. She was long treated as a symbol rather than a person, her sexuality flattened into spectacle. This quote reasserts sexuality as lived experience, not performance - and it’s pointedly domestic, not pornographic. The subtext reads: you can be erotic and vulnerable at once; you can be a “sex symbol” and still be human enough to be nauseated mid-joy. That contradiction is the whole joke, and the quiet rebuke.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Anderson, Pamela. (2026, January 16). Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/making-love-in-the-morning-got-me-through-morning-106293/

Chicago Style
Anderson, Pamela. "Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/making-love-in-the-morning-got-me-through-morning-106293/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/making-love-in-the-morning-got-me-through-morning-106293/. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

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Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Actress from Canada.

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