Pamela Anderson makes heartbreaking admission about the exact moment she decided to ditch makeup

Pamela Anderson has made a heartbreaking admission about the exact moment she decided to ditch makeup once and for all.

The 57-year-old Baywatch star, who plays a Las Vegas stage performer named Shelly in Gia Coppola's upcoming drama, The Last Showgirl, has opened up about how she came about landing the role.

During the interview with Variety, Anderson explained she got the call from Coppola while doing a very wholesome activity at home - a pastime which also coincided with when she decided to start opting for a beautiful fresh-faced look which seems worlds apart from her signature blonde bombshell look from the 90s.

Anderson revealed the makeup-free journey all began with, surprisingly, cucumbers.

"I grow my own cucumbers," she shared. "I went home to remember who I was. That’s when I started taking the makeup off and getting my hands dirty."

The actress continued: "I didn’t really have representation at the time, but Gia tried to find me through an old agent, and he passed on the movie.

"Gia didn’t take no for an answer; she found my son Brandon, and Brandon brought me the script, and I read it on my little vegetable farm.

"I knew the whole movie like a play before I got to Las Vegas."

The 57-year-old Baywatch star has regularly rocked a fresh-faced look on the red carpet (Gilbert Flores / Contributor / Getty Images)

Elsewhere in the interview, Anderson opened up about the impact of being sexualised was like for her two kids from her first marriage to Tommy Lee; Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger.

Explaining what it was like preparing for the role, she explained: "I was able to bring a lot of my own personal experience, my long life of dealing with beauty and glamour and ageing and reassessing life choices. I got to bring my whole life into this role.

"I think the past shouldn’t dictate your future. But looking back, I was always creating characters. And I feel like I know I’ve created a few Halloween costumes.

Anderson in The Last Showgirl which hits cinema early in 2025 (Roadside Attractions)

"But a lot of the things I went through, I didn’t realise my kids were going through them at the same time."

She admitted: "Being a working mum and being in this entertainment world and having your mum be sexualised in some way - I didn’t realise how difficult it was. So I’m not ashamed of my life.

"I’m not ashamed of the choices that I made, even though maybe in hindsight I would’ve done things differently. But you need life experience to know that you would’ve done that differently."