PAMELA Anderson is shedding her Playboy image, the Baywatch actress has revealed. The 57-year-old Hollywood star explained she's distancing herself from the "cartoon character that I'd created" during her early years in the industry, in a recent interview with Better Homes & Garden. Asked about her recent carpet appearances , where Pamela has been photographed without any makeup, the mother-of-two said that embracing her natural look was a conscious decision.
"That was the beginning of me letting go of the image I had always had of myself," she told the magazine. "What is this cartoon character that I’d created? OK, that was fun. But I’m not that person anymore.
"It was a dance I was doing that I was only partly aware of," Pamela continued. "And looking back, I can see why I did it. But I've always been into being a homemaker too.
" She credited the transformation to her two sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, explaining how her public perception "hurt" them during their childhood years. READ MORE ON PAMELA ANDERSON "All the kids were always at our house," Pamela said. "I cooked for everybody, pots of spaghetti for the neighborhood, and so my kids have always seen that part of me.
"And it hurt them to think that those other things are the only things people think of their mom, "Yes, she's been in Playboy. Yes, she's done all these things, but we know who she is. It's different now," she affirmed.
Pamela is currently promoting her new cookbook titled I Love You, w.