She's the Playboy bunny who adorned countless teenage boys' bedroom walls in the 90s – and now Pamela Anderson is returning to star in the magazine's last ever nude issue.

The 48-year-old model and actress revealed that she accepted an offer from Hugh Hefner's representatives to feature in the photo shoot for the Jan/Feb 2016 issue – but only after checking with her 19-year-old son Brandon first.

"I got a call from [Hugh Hefner's] attorney who said, 'We don't want anybody else. There's nobody else, could you do the last cover of Playboy?'" Anderson told Entertainment Tonight.

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

Even when informed by his mother that the photo shoot would involve nudity, Brandon maintained his position, saying: "'We're older, we're not embarrassed anymore of you. You know, we think you're great.'"

The issue, which will be released on Friday December 11, will be the last Playboy to feature images of nude women after the publisher announced earlier this year that it was phasing out the long-standing tradition.

"You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free," Scott Flanders, Playboy's chief executive, told the New York Times. "It's just passé at this juncture.

The move is seen as a calculated risk for the magazine, which has featured many of the world's most beautiful and high profile women across the past seven decades, ever since Marilyn Monroe posed for its 'relaunch' December 1953 issue.

 Cover stars over the years have included Brigitte Bardot, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Jayne Mansfield, Cindy Crawford, Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron.

For Anderson, the forthcoming issue will be the 14th time she has appeared on Playboy's front cover, and her 15th photo shoot for the magazine

She revealed that the shoot was conducted by photographer Ellen Von Unwerth and, at one point, involved frolicking in the grounds of the Playboy Mansion.

"I took off all my clothes, and I rolled down the hill as fast as I can," she said. "I was just screaming, and hair and boobs were flying, and shoes were going everywhere."