She attended the University of Connecticut, where she studied drama, acting in student productions of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Crucible, and Romeo and Juliet.
[1] She dropped out and hitchhiked to San Francisco, but eventually returned for her degree, after which she began work as a New York model, signing with the Eileen Ford Agency.
Her first job was in an episode of Star Trek playing Yeoman Smith in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965), the series' second pilot.
[1] After this experience, she returned to New York modeling, and for a time was the Clairol "Summer Blonde" girl who appeared in television and print ads.
[1] In 1988, People reported that she was living on real estate investments and splitting her time between homes in The Hamptons, Long Island and Palm Beach, Florida.