Pamela Anderson admits she once thought celebrities who starred in reality television shows were desperate.
Despite this, the sex icon and former Baywatch star arrived in Australia today to promote her new "documentary series" Pam: Girl on the Loose which will premiere on E! TV next week.
"I think it's a lot different to a reality show," she said.
"[In] a reality show, there's a beginning and a middle and an end and something happens.
"But my life is so sporadic and so crazy: none of its contrived, none of it's made up."
Anderson — who revealed before her flight Down Under that she was on the hunt for a new man — said she was initially against the idea of celebrities embarking on reality television but has described the result as "very invasive and insightful".
"I always thought how desperate, they must be at the end of their career… I thought it was a horrible thing to do, and here I am," she said.
Amongst photoshoots and charity work, the series includes a scene where Anderson disposes of 20 mattresses, claiming she's "had sex on all of them".
But today the mother of two dismissed the comment as "a joke".
"They were my kids' mattresses," she said.
When asked if she was brave to expose so much of her life on screen, Anderson was up front.
"I expose a lot of myself," she said.
And at this afternoon's press conference an Unseen TV reporter did just that, stripping down to his underwear.
Describing himself as her biggest fan, he pulled down his jeans and Anderson signed his red briefs.
"Wow, get my camera, shoot this," Anderson said.
But she was clearly unimpressed when he told her he slept in a big bed with lots of animals, and pulled out a chicken drumstick from his pants and munched on it.
"The things you get asked to do," said Anderson, an animal rights activist, as she glanced at her manager.
"This is what happens. See, I create this image, and this is what happens.
"I'm a girl on the loose damn it."
Anderson, who protested against the fast-food chain KFC when she was in Australia last month, said it was the strangest thing she'd seen at a press conference.
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