In the '90s, you couldn't look at a red swimsuit without immediately thinking of Pamela Anderson. But while the former blonde bombshell has, in recent years, changed her image and moved away from the spotlight, her career is far from over.
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00:00In the 90s, you couldn't look at a red swimsuit without immediately thinking of Pamela Anderson.
00:04But while the former blonde bombshell has, in recent years, changed her image and moved
00:08away from the spotlight, her career is far from over.
00:12Anderson made one of the biggest decisions of her life in 2020, when she moved back to
00:15her native Canada. Her previous home wasn't in the U.S., though. She had actually relocated
00:20to France in 2018. The move distanced her from her Hollywood connections and her previous
00:24life in Los Angeles, though she kept a residence in the city where she first became a Playboy
00:28icon.
00:29Anderson's new home is her old home, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she was born.
00:34She relocated there with her two sons, Brandon and Dylan, with whom she spent much of the
00:38pandemic lockdowns. She also brought her elderly parents back home to live nearby in a renovated
00:42motel once owned by her grandmother.
00:44Sounds sweet as hell, but Anderson wasn't always known for her breezy, wholesome lifestyle.
00:49She was associated with Hugh Hefner's Playboy brand for a large part of her career and was
00:53well-known for her party lifestyle. However, her pace of life has changed. Nowadays, she
00:57is enjoying getting back to her roots and connecting with nature and activities associated
01:01with mindfulness and self-care.
01:03Who am I? You know, and that's when I went home into my garden and started, you know,
01:09planting things and getting into nature."
01:11She now spends a great deal of her time at home with her family and in her garden, where
01:14she grows fresh ingredients to use in her kitchen. Her two sons now help her run her
01:18business and develop new creative ideas, while Anderson is also connecting with her roots.
01:23She claims that a love for gardening runs in her family, telling Better Homes and Gardens,
01:26It comes from my grandfather Herman. He was really interesting and the closest person
01:30to me as a child. He was very much into mythology and fairy tales. He would put little mirrors
01:35around in the garden, and he told me that was a way I could catch a glimpse of fairies
01:38and elves."
01:39According to Anderson, her home garden was, quote,
01:41"...the first place my feet touched the actual soil."
01:44In 2023, Anderson released the warmly received memoir Love, Pamela, but her writing aspirations
01:49don't begin and end with her memoir. She also released the cookbook, I Love You! Recipes
01:53from the Heart, at the tail end of 2024.
01:56It's unlikely that many Anderson fans from her career peak in the 90s would be aware
02:00of her lifelong passion for cooking, but she actually became known for her culinary skills
02:04within the industry, and it's also part of her identity within her own family. Anderson
02:08is known to bring homemade treats for film crews when she's on shoots, and is responsible
02:12for the majority of cooking at home.
02:14The cookbook came about after Anderson gifted a box of family recipe cards to her sons,
02:19who were moving into a new home with their partners.
02:21Being the business people that my sons are, I said, Mom, this is a cookbook. We're going
02:25to a publisher."
02:26The work also takes inspiration from her cultural heritage. Anderson's grandfather was Finnish,
02:31and the book contains her take on traditional dishes such as cabbage rolls, pickles, and
02:35other recipes, all of which are plant-based.
02:37While it's become clear that Anderson has shed the screen siren image that brought her
02:41such an incredible amount of fame, she hasn't turned her back on acting altogether. In 2024,
02:45she starred opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in The Last Showgirl, a film by Gia Coppola about
02:50a Vegas dancer whose career comes to an abrupt end. The movie won the special jury prize
02:54at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
02:56Doing the movie, it felt like a dream, and now it just all feels very surreal, like I'm
03:00going to wake up and this isn't really happening."
03:02Anderson herself was given the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye Award to celebrate her
03:06remarkable career, so it's clear that Hollywood — and her fans — are still in love with
03:10her.
03:11And Anderson continues to work, with fans hyped about her next project — a reboot
03:15to the classic comedy The Naked Gun. She's starring in the flick alongside Liam Neeson,
03:20and while discussing about her co-star, she told Variety that, quote,
03:22"...Liam is hysterical in it."