She was named Miss Rheingold 1964[2] (the last person to hold that title)[1] while modeling and appearing in TV commercials.

She also appeared as a "Scream Queen" who is terrorized by a headless monster in the horror film Beast of Blood (1971).

Despite warnings about limited opportunities for success, she earned a six-figure income in her first year with a real-estate firm.

By 1982, she owned Celeste Yarnall & Associates, which a syndicated columnist described as "one of L.A.'s top office real-estate firms.

[9] Yarnall died at her home in Westlake Village, California on October 7, 2018, aged 74, from ovarian cancer, which she had been diagnosed with in 2014.