[1] Dahmen left home at the age of 17 to live with her uncle, artist George Morrison, in Providence, Rhode Island.

[2] She was discovered in her late teens by The New York Times illustrator Antonio Lopez, who spotted her uncle's portrait of her and was ultimately responsible for her introduction into the fashion industry.

[3] She appeared on the covers of numerous fashion magazines including, Harper's Bazaar in 1968[4] and both UK[5] Vogue and Italia in 1971[6][7][2] She was also associated with the Youthquake movement.

[5] Dahmen grew up in South Minneapolis, Minnesota, and gave birth to her first child, a daughter who she named Veronica Rose, aged 16 in June 1962.

[9] Dahmen divorced Whiting in the late 1970s and entered her second marriage to singer Alan Merrill (real name Allan Preston Sachs) in 1977, she moved with him to New York from London, in 1980.