11:38am UK, Tuesday August 03, 2004

Pamela Anderson has gone above and beyond the call of duty for her first novel.

180 Pamela Anderson poses nude in novel

Pam signing copies of her book

The former Baywatch babe has included a nude photo of herself in her debut book, Star.    

The Barb Wire actress admitted the book of fiction would not set the literary world on fire.     

But although it took Anderson just a month to write, she said it was "very me".     

"I started writing columns for Jane and Marie Claire," Ananova quoted her as saying.     

"I can sit down in the hair and make-up chair and a topic will come up and I'll write it out on a legal pad.     

"Poor grammar and everything's bad, but I'll send it in and they'll fix it."     

The Canadian-born novelist compared her life to that of her heroine.     

"Like Star I had never been on a plane before I came to LA," Anderson explained.     

Star tells the story of a woman who arrives in Los Angeles in a tight T-shirt.     

She goes on to appear in a men's magazine, gets a slot on television and ultimately makes it in Hollywood.