Pamela Anderson is considering a name change.
During a recent chat with Vogue Scandinavia, the Naked Gun star opened up about her growing desire to embrace her Finnish history by taking on her family name.
“Sometimes I don’t want to be Pamela Anderson. I want to be Pamela Hyytiäinen,” she told Vogue in an interview published Dec. 2. “I would like to change my name, but they won’t let me.”
The change would mean sharing a name with her Finnish grandfather Herman Hyytiäinen, a logger and a poet who shared her passion for creativity. “He was the closest person to me in my life,” she shared.
There’s another huge appeal to the idea: Anderson loves the thought of another evolution. “My imagination has run wild with me over the years,” Anderson said. “I’ve been trying different people on for size. You have to peel it all back, many times, and start over and over again.”
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Anderson recently underwent a career resurgence, spurred on by her Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story and her critically acclaimed role in last year’s indie drama, The Last Showgirl. She followed up the buzz by joining the hilarity of The Naked Gun, the fourth entry in the spoof franchise, which saw her star opposite Liam Neeson. While promoting the film, Anderson garnered even more attention as fans speculated about her off-screen relationship with the comedy’s leading man.
Of course, for Anderson, that level of public scrutiny is nothing new. Last year, the Baywatch alum told Entertainment Weekly that her sometimes “messy” life has served as a great source of inspiration, especially in this newest stage of her career.
“Having a beautiful, messy life is something incredible to draw from,” Anderson told EW ahead of The Last Showgirl‘s premiere. “Sometimes I’ll look back on my life and think, ‘I could have done this differently,’ but you need the life experience to be able to look back and say those things.”
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She added that the film was an opportunity to challenge herself, nearly four decades into her career. “I knew I was capable of more than I’d done in the past, and I kind of had given up and went home and thought, oh well, it’s too bad. I screwed up,” she said. “I didn’t work hard enough or people just see me a certain way because I fell into the trappings. I want to be defined by what I do and not what has been done to me.”
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