Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson is a Canadian-American actor, model and activist who became an international name through Baywatch in the 1990s. She later appeared in films including Barb Wire, Scary Movie 3, and The Naked Gun reboot with Liam Neeson in 2025. Pamela has remained a constant presence in popular culture through television, theatre work, and high-profile public appearances. In the 2020s she took on a new wave of projects, alongside a public shift towards a more pared-back image and a focus on home life on Vancouver Island.

Why Pamela Anderson is vegan

Pamela Anderson is vegan for the animals.

Pamela Anderson became vegetarian in her teens and vegan a few years later, in her twenties.¹Pritchett, L. 2025. Pamela Anderson Talks Gardening, Cooking, And Veganism On LIVE With Kelly And Mark. Plant Based News. Available: https://plantbasednews.org/vegan-headlines/pamela-anderson-gardening-cooking-veganism/ [Accessed 12 August 2025]. Since then she has consistently used her platform to speak up for animals.

Anderson’s activist career began when her dad brought home a deer he had hunted and killed. When she saw the “beautiful deer, her fur splattered with blood, hanging upside down” she screamed and her anguish convinced her dad to never go hunting again.²Kauffmann, S. 2009. Actress Pamela Anderson as Activist. Modern Dog. Available: https://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/actress-pamela-anderson-as-activist/ [Accessed 12 August 2026].

She has also been one of the most visible celebrities linked with PETA over a long period. Her campaigns have included anti-fur work such as “Give Fur the Cold Shoulder”, vegetarian and vegan billboards in the UK, and later campaigns such as “Vegans Make Better Lovers”.

Eating good food is important to Pamela and so, in 2024, she published a plant-based cookbook, I Love You: Recipes from the Heart, full of her favourite recipes and a year later began hosting a TV series called Pamela’s Cooking With Love.³Smith, R. 2024. Pamela Anderson launches her first vegan cookbook inspired by her life and travels. Vegan Food & Living. Available:https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/pamela-andersons-launches-her-first-vegan-cookbook/ [Accessed 12 August 2026].

“When I became aware of the cruelty of slaughterhouses and gave up meat, I also learned the environmental impact the meat industry has. I gave up dairy last. The cruelest of all the industries. Taking babies away and raping animals struck a chord with me as a woman. After I removed dairy I felt like a new person.”⁴Mandeville, Y. Pamela Anderson: Bomb Out Of The Shell. HealthyLivingMagazine.us. Available: http://www.healthylivingmagazine.us/Articles/559/ [Accessed 10 March 2021].