The model and actress  Pamela Anderson, struggled with Hepatitis C for 16 years.  

On Saturday, November 7 she made an exciting announcement on Instagram after she started a new FDA-approved drug regimen over the summer.

"I am CURED!!! - I just found out #nomorehepc #thankyou #blessing #family #prayer #live," Anderson, 48, wrote. "I pray anyone living with Hep C can qualify or afford treatment. It will be more available soon. I know treatment is hard to get still...#dontlosehope."

Anderson posted a photo of herself bare in what appears to be a boat alongside her message. In the image, while strategically covering herself with both arms, she is seen laughing with her head thrown back.

It was in September, when Pamela, mother of two announced that she was undergoing a new treatment for the blood-borne illness.

She told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. "I am taking medicine right now, they have come up with a cure. I should be cured — a 98 percent chance."

In 2002,  Anderson made the revelation that she'd been diagnosed with the liver disease, claiming  that she'd contracted it from former husband rocker Tommy Lee, whom she shared a tattoo needle.

Before trying the new anti-viral medication, the Baywatch star experimented with various alternative medicines. During that time, she actually expected to be cured within a month.

In 1995, a video recording of Lee and Anderson containing their sexual activities while they were on vacation was released on the Internet after it was supposedly stolen. A prime example of viral pornography.

Lee had to serve four months in prison for kicking Pamela Anderson while she was holding their son Dylan, which he did not contest. 

In 1988,  he faced a lawsuit when he allegedly exposed a right-facing Nazi swastika tattoo on his arm to public scrutiny (the tattoo was in fact a left-facing swastika).

Anderson is currently a vegan, an advocate for animal rights, and an active member of the animal protection organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), taking part in several campaigns for animal rights.

She became a vegetarian in her early teens when she saw her father cleaning an animal he had hunted.