Pamela Anderson made a big home improvement.
The “Baywatch” bombshell, 57, decided to move to Vancouver Island off the coast of Canada at the start of the pandemic — and now she’s getting candid on her decision to do so.
Anderson was born and raised in nearby Ladysmith, British Columbia and said she was inspired to leave California and return to her roots.
“I guess [it was] a homecoming, you could say, to really kind of look at my life and remember who I was – not what other people were telling me I was,” Anderson told WWD.com on Tuesday.
“And I didn’t want anything that had happened [in Hollywood] to me define me.”
Anderson — who is an avid gardener — added: “I wanted what I do to define me… all these realizations came to me in the rose garden.”
And Anderson’s rose garden has sparked many ideas for her life and business ventures.
Earlier this year, she co-founded the vegan beauty brand, Sonsie Skin, and now her new Cleansing Mousse has been formulated with rose hips essence inspired by flowers growing in her home garden.
The model – who stopped wearing makeup in recent years – told WWD that she felt like “the rose garden, for me, was a very grounding message, because I kind of rediscovered myself in the rose garden.”
Anderson spent decades living in Malibu, California and has recently revealed she was unhappy there.
“A few years back, I kind of gave up at some point and needed a change,” she admitted in an interview with Better Homes & Gardens at the time. “I thought, ‘Well, I guess that’s just what people think of me.’ I was not in a good space when I moved back to Canada.”
She continued: “I don’t know what happened over the last few decades, but I feel now so far removed from the image of who I was. I felt very sad and lonely. I didn’t feel just misunderstood, I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes.”
Anderson, who shares two adult sons: Brandon Thomas Lee, 28, and Dylan Jagger Lee, 26, with ex-husband Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, 62, confessed she internalized some of those decisions.
“I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much. I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden.”