Better houses and gardens/Ditte Isager
In a cover story in Better Homes & Gardens Pamela Anderson shows a different side of herself: She could give Martha Stewart a tough fight for their money.
The 57-year-old former Baywatch bombshell told the magazine that she sold her Malibu home during the pandemic and returned to the same small town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she was born and raised.
“At some point I gave up and needed a change,” she said. “I wasn’t in a good place when I moved back to Canada.”
She added that she felt “very sad and lonely” and said: “I felt like I had really messed it up, that my whole life was a bunch of mistakes. I was hard on myself… I put my… kids through so much.”
Back in Canada, she perfected the art of baking, completely renovated her family’s run-down hotel and, with the help of her now grown-up sons, began Brandon And Dylan.
The latter resulted in her bestselling autobiography “Love, Pamela” (2023) and her Netflix documentary “Pamela, A Love Story”.
Pamela says gardening was an escape: “When I started gardening, it was like a metaphor for getting my life back in order. I started planting seeds,” she says.
She gives flowers to her “hard-working … gentlemen” sons, adding: “Unfortunately, over the years, as they learned about things from my past that were both age-appropriate and inappropriate, they thought I had been taken advantage of in some way.”
She added: “It doesn’t hurt them to think that these other things are the only thing people think about their mother. Yes, she was in Playboy… but we know who she is. That’s different now.”
“They told me, ‘We’re going to try to find ways for you to continue doing what you love, but also share it with other people in a way that benefits you too.'”
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