After leaving the film industry in the 1970s, she went into the retail clothing/fashion business, where she stayed for 25 years. She was a personal shopper for Barneys of New York and later general manager of Fred Segal Clothiers in Los Angeles.
Still residing in the Los Angeles area, she works as a stylist.
Was working as an exotic dancer at a bar called "The Losers" before
becoming an actress.
As a child she auditioned for a role on The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), but a bad case of stage fright caused her to forget all the lines she had memorized, and she flunked the audition.