She came to prominence after appearing on the MTV show True Life and being expelled by and suing California Baptist University over her right to study nursing there as a transgender woman.

[7][8] In 2011, she was to have transferred in the fall to California Baptist University, also in Riverside, to study nursing on academic and music scholarships, when an April episode of the MTV reality series True Life based on a year in her life[9] led the university to accuse her of fraud for stating her gender as female on her application; she was suspended and then expelled.

[13] In 2013 she sued the university for unlawful discrimination under the California Unruh Civil Rights Act and breach of contract;[10][11][14][15] in July 2014 a judge ruled that as a private religious institution, the college was entitled to exclude transgender people from in-person classes, but that it must not discriminate against them in its for-profit businesses and services open to the public, including on-line classes, and awarded her $4,000 in damages plus costs; the breach of contract suit was rejected on procedural grounds.

[8][20] She returned in 2021 in the companion series Worst Cooks in America: Dirty Dishes where favorite former recruits watch past episodes of the show and react to them.

[4][25][26] She has also played small roles in a number of other TV series and feature films, including the 2015 horror short Lucid Dark.