Pamela Anderson Moved Back to Canada to “Face It and Erase It,” Paving the Way for a New Life and Career

Pamela Anderson shares her journey towards unmasking herself after moving to Canada in an exclusive with BHG.

Just as transplants from all over the world did, Pamela Anderson decided to move back home during the pandemic—her original home. She left France and sold her house in L.A. to return to Vancouver Island, British Columbia at the start of the pandemic, but perhaps for not the same reason as most. 

In an exclusive with Better Homes & Gardens, Anderson told us that as she reflected back on her choices, she felt like her “whole life was a bundle of mistakes.” She left for Canada because she wanted to “disappear” and put her life back together. Anderson’s homecoming was inaugurated by a feeling that “it was the end”. But really, it was the start of many new beginnings for her. Or rather, delayed beginnings. 

Anderson says she “was always into being a housewife.” That latent desire and talent had found a way to live during her career, but was still swept under the rug because it did not fit in comfortably with the popular public image. “I threw every dinner party and cooked all those meals for my family and my kids,” she said. “It wasn’t what was seen publicly”. 

She built up the pieces of her life again by planting little seeds, starting with the renovation of the property she bought in Canada. “You should see the before pictures. It was decayed and rotten to the ground.”

Once she was able to move into the home, she started off on a host of new projects. Anderson got inspired by her mother’s habit of keeping a recipe card box and found one to fill up with her family’s recipes and comfort foods. Originally, she had made the box for her sons, who had just bought a house together. But her son, Brandon Thomas Lee, “being the businessman, said, “This is a book, Mom.” And so we did it and titled the book I Love You since that was engraved on the recipe box.”

And that insight extended to her other career wins. Her sons helped her start and run her minimalist skincare brand, Sonsie. The brand’s focus is on clean products that promote holistic skin health, much like Anderson’s new personal fashion choices. 

Anderson had begun to challenge the idea of beauty she had to adhere to her whole career by going makeup-free. “That was the beginning of me letting go of the image I had always had of myself.” She felt that this previous version of herself was a “cartoon character” that she had created and did not recognize anymore. “As soon as I took the mask off, the whole world opened up.”

That mindset came to Anderson unintentionally during the 2023 Paris Fashion Week when she did not want to sit in a makeup chair for three hours and decided to visit the Louvre and attend the event barefaced instead.

And that night flipped a switch in her head. She was able to reach for a younger Pamela then, and enjoy another delayed beginning through her eyes. “I felt like this little freckle-faced kid with a big, beautiful Vivienne Westwood hat on.”

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