Pamela Anderson has been going through a real renaissance era over the past decade or so. The former Baywatch star has shrugged off years of being defined by the way other people saw her and taken the reins herself. As a woman, as an actress (notably in the 2024 Gia Coppola movie The Last Showgirl), as a mother of two, and even as a prolific gardener. In fact, Anderson took to Instagram ahead of the Memorial Day weekend to get philosophical about life, about renewal, and about her garden in a moving post.
Anderson shared a series of photos of herself and her sweet dogs in her garden on Vancouver Island in Canada on Friday, watering her plants in head-to-toe loose white linen before moving on to her rose-covered trellis and gorgeous views of the Pacific ocean from her yard. The former HGTV star and vegan cookbook author shared her many seed packets, including carrots, peppers, corn, and cabbage, before showing her impressed followers a beautiful fruit tart, presumably made from the bounty of her garden. "I think of life as a garden," Anderson captioned the post. "You get to replant, start again, and make it yours. Love, P." While she did not expand on the theme of starting again, it certainly does seem to apply to this stage of her life. And fans love this for her.
"She is so inspirational, her life seems so peaceful and beautiful in the best possible way," one follower wrote on Instagram, while another added, "Gorgeous garden and what a beautiful way to think of life."
This new stage of Anderson's life came after she made the very intentional decision to move back to Canada after growing tired of the public's perception of her. “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,” she told Better Homes and Gardens in 2024. “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. I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much.”
She went on to buy a motel once owned by her grandmother and eventually "came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden."
And here, it seems, is where Pamela Anderson entered this new era of her life. “Coming back to my childhood home has revealed a very magical path to me,” she told the outlet. “ It’s a romantic way of living in nature with compassion and sensuality.”
We love this for Pamela Anderson.
