United Kingdom, Dec. 10 -- Pamela Anderson "would like to change her name" to embrace her Finnish heritage.

The 58-year-old star has revealed she often wants to reclaim the moniker previously held by her late Finnish grandfather Herman Hyytiainen, which was changed when the family arrived in Canada.

She told Vogue Scandinavia: "Sometimes I don't want to be Pamela Anderson. I want to be Pamela Hyytiainen. I would like to change my name, but they won't let me."

The Baywatch star - who described her grandfather as "the closest person to me in my life" - recalled how Herman taught her Finnish as a young girl, but at the time she believed it to be a mythical language only they shared.

However, she lost touch with being able to speak it flu...