Pamela Anderson s connection to another iconic bombshell goes all the way back to childhood.

Anderson revealed how she was first introduced to Barbie by the dolls own inventor, Ruth Handler, in an interview with Elle magazine out Thursday.

Ruth Handler actually gave me one of the first Barbies, she said. She was a neighbor. It was the first platinum Barbie, in a red bathing suit.

That model of Barbie first came out in 1962, five years before Anderson was born in Ladysmith, Canada.