Pamela Anderson bares all for last nude issue of 'Playboy'

Pamela Anderson will be on the cover of the last nude issue of Playboy magazine, ending a tradition of centerfolds baring all for the publication.

Playboy announced in October that the magazine will no longer publish images of fully nude women as part of an editorial redesign.

The last issue of the magazine featuring nude women will be on stands December 11. According to the magazine, there was only one woman for the historic last nude issue.

"To close out this era in the magazine’s history, it only made sense to put the most famous Playmate in Playboy history on the cover: Pamela Anderson,” staff wrote on Thursday. 

The cover is Anderson’s 14th Playboy cover and her 15th pictorial for the magazine, according to the magazine.

Anderson told Entertainment Tonight that she found out about the magazine’s plans to robe the playmates from one of her sons.

"I was like, 'What? Are you serious?' But then I thought that's probably a good thing,'" Anderson told Entertainment Tonight. "It's hard to compete with the Internet. And the girl next door doesn't exist anymore. She's taking selfies down her shirt, like, you know; there's no mystery over there anymore."

When the company asked Anderson if she would pose for the issue, she said she was concerned that it might bother her sons, Entertainment Tonight reported.

"I said, 'Hef just called, he wants me to do the last cover of Playboy,' and he goes, 'Mom you've got to do it,'" Anderson said.

Anderson recalls that Brandon said, 'We're older, we're not embarrassed anymore by you. You know, we think you're great."

Playboy tweeted a photo of the cover and used the hashtag #LastOne on Thursday.

While Anderson may seem like a natural now, she said she was "nervous and throwing up" the first time she posed for the magazine.

"I was painfully shy before, but then it clicked in my head that nobody cares what you look like naked except you," she told the magazine. "People are more concerned about themselves and their own flaws."

Gallery: Playboy through the years

The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953, and featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover.  The company noted in October that it may be a "risk" to go "non-nude.”

"This is a company ... that has risk in its DNA ... Our journalism, art, photos and fiction have challenged norms, defied expectations and set a new tone for decades. So we say: Why stop now," staff wrote in an online post in October.

The magazine will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer bare all when the March issue is released, according to the magazine.

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