Pamela Anderson Celebrated Her 57th Birthday by Going Bare-Faced on Instagram

"Happier than ever."

Pamela Anderson is ushering in a new year by being her most authentic self. The actress took to Instagram to celebrate turning 57 and used the opportunity to go completely bare-faced.

The Baywatch star shared a carousel of images to her feed, the first of which featured her gardening and tending to several potted plants. Her look was simple, and featured her in a plain white T-shirt with gardening gloves on her hands. As for beauty, she kept her face fresh and free of makeup, and she wore her hair up in a bun.

The other photos in the carousel featured dainty flowers from Anderson's home, what appeared to be the beginnings of a sourdough loaf, and a photo of a handwritten note that read, "I'm going to make life beautiful no matter what it takes."

She captioned the post, "Happier than ever… Thank you for all the love and birthday wishes. Love, P."

Anderson has explained why she no longer wears makeup on most occasions, explaining that "something just kind of came over me and I was dressing in these beautiful clothes and I thought, I don’t want to compete with the clothes...I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room. I feel like it’s just freedom. It’s a release.”

In her February interview with Allure, Anderson doubled down on her reasoning for scaling back on makeup, and told the outlet it was purely a choice she made for herself.

“It wasn’t to make a political statement, I just wanted to have my little weird face sticking out of the top of those great clothes,” she said. “And the funny thing was, I would come back from the shows wearing all these clothes and a big funny hat and everything and there were all these paparazzi and then I went in one door and changed into my jeans and T-shirt and no makeup and walked out the door right through the same crowd that had been chasing me and no one noticed.”

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