Pamela Anderson Loves the Ritual of Writing: 'This Is What Saved Me'

Mar. 15, 2025

Pamela Anderson for Better Homes & Gardens and her forthcoming cookbook ‘I Love You’.Photo:Ditte Isager; Voracious

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Pamela Andersonloves a good ritual, whether that’s lighting a candle, doing a meditation exercise or writing out her thoughts.

While appearing on the cover ofBetter Homes & Gardens’ Stylemaker Issue, the actress, 57, revealed the process behind her 2023 memoirLove, Pamela— and its sister documentary,Pamela, a love story— which came out in January 2023, and how much writing still means to her today. Her newest project, a cookbook calledI Love You: Recipes From the Heart, is forthcoming this fall.

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Writing down her feelings is a critical part of her routine, Anderson shares. The habit of jotting things down overlaps with her spiritual beliefs, she explained. “I love rituals. I’m into candles and prayer and meditation. It really works,” she said.

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“I don’t know if it’s called manifestation, but whatever you call it, it’s something that I’ve always done since I was little — writing and journaling.”

Pamela Anderson in her happy place for Better Homes & Gardens.Ditte Isager

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“There are yellow legal pads everywhere. I write all the time,” she told the magazine. “I do a Substack newsletter calledThe Open Journal, which is nice because it gives me a way to empty my mind and not torture my children with my thoughts [laughs]. Dylan came up with the idea to get it out of my system. It’s helpful for me to write, and I do it every morning.”

“This is what saved me as a kid and as a teenager,” she continued. “As an adult, I write to know how I feel. I guess what I’m working on these days is being able to actually speak those words—sometimes writing is easier than telling somebody how you feel, especially in a modern world that has lost a little bit of this human connection.”

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Better Homes & Gardens’ Stylemaker Issue hits newsstands on Aug. 23. Anderson’s cookbook,I Love You, comes out Oct. 15 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.

source: people.com