Surprise reason Pamela Anderson sold her US home to live in Canada
The 'Baywatch' star offloaded her longtime Malibu home in 2021 for a whopping $US14.9 million ($A22.8 million).
The Canadian-American actress initially purchased the land in 2000 for $US1.8 million ($A2.7 million) and built the property from the ground up.
'Many sexy, fun times were had here,' she told the New York Post in 2021 of memories made in her former residence.
Now the media personality is back in her native country. She currently lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Anderson's Instagram page features snaps of her 100-year-old home and garden.
Referred to as Arcady, which means 'peaceful, rustic place', the property has been in the 'Home Improvement' star's family for generations.
'I think it's kind of like a wildflower sanctuary: mystical, very romantic. I live in a rainforest, so it just feels very, I don't know, healthy,' she told Architectural Digest in October 2024.
'Of course I love neutral colours. I love all the linen, and everything is very earthy and wood and white and concrete, and I love that too.
'It's eclectic, I like to have fun. It's bursting with memories of my childhood, so it's triggering!'
Anderson made the decision to move to Canada during her marriage to Dan Hayhurst, which lasted from 2020 to 2022.
'I feel more settled on my sustainable ranch on Vancouver Island with space to rescue more animals,' she told the Post.
'It's still beachfront. One foot away from the water — and I'm lost'
Anderson confessed to Better Homes & Gardens that she wasn't in a 'good space' when she made the decision to leave Hollywood and move back to Canada.
'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,' she told the outlet.
'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.
'I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden.'
Anderson couldn't be happier to put her past behind and has no regrets turning in her previous Hollywood stardom for a simpler lifestyle.
'People have this pneumatic kind of image of me from Playboy to 'Baywatch,' to my rock 'n' roll type of husbands, to everything else,' she said.
'And as much as I threw every dinner party and cooked all those meals for family and my kids, it wasn't what was seen publicly.
'But I also played into the image that was created around me. I'm glad I did all that, but I'm really glad I'm where I am now.
'I think the most important part is, I made it through all of it. And now it's such a relief that I get to be myself and enjoy this time.'
Anderson briefly relocated to France during the Covid pandemic before ultimately returning to Canada.
'It was at the very beginning and during lockdown. Before that, I was in France for two years, living in Marseille, and then I flew home to L.A. then up to Canada,' she told Better Homes & Gardens.
'I bought the property and started renovating it. I mean, you should see the before pictures. It was decayed and rotten to the ground.
'I lived in another little house on the beach that I had that was liveable.'
Anderson first appeared in Playboy magazine in the February 1990 edition as Playmate of the Month.
She gained recognition for regular appearances in Hugh Hefner's Playboy, becoming the magazine's most frequent cover model.
Her acting career took off when she landed the role of C.J. Park in 'Baywatch,' from 1992-97.
The mother of two shares sons Brandon and Dylan with Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. Anderson and Lee were married from 1995-98.
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