Pamela Anderson Reveals What She Wants to Change Her Name to
Turns out, Pamela Anderson is her showgirl name.
The Naked Gun actress shared her desire to change her name to Pamela Hyytiäinen to honor her family’s Finnish roots.
“Sometimes I don’t want to be Pamela Anderson,” the actress told Vogue Scandinavia in an interview published Dec. 2. “I want to be Pamela Hyytiäinen. I would like to change my name, but they won’t let me.”
The 58-year-old revealed that her grandfather Herman Hyytiäinen changed his family’s last name to Anderson when they moved to Canada in an effort to more easily assimilate.
When she was growing up, her grandfather was “the closest person” to her in her life, she explained, and he even taught her Finnish, though her fluency in her family’s native language “kind of left with him” when he died when she was around 11.
Still, Herman passed along his wonderous spirit and belief in folklore in Pamela, who says she’s been exploring different identities in recent years.
