[3] She went on to become one of the most popular glamour models of her era, with her photographs appearing regularly in tabloid newspapers and men's magazines.
In 1988, she appeared in a Playboy magazine pictorial with a number of other Page 3 models, including Maria Whittaker and Suzanne Mizzi.
[5] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McKenna regularly played parts in pantomimes and fringe theatre productions.
[7] She worked on Brilliant Creatures from 1998–2004, where her co-hosts included Terry Nutkins and Stephen Mulhern,[11] and How 2 from 2000–06, which she co-presented with Fred Dinenage and Gareth Jones.
[12] In 1990, McKenna married stuntman Tony Potter, whom she had met on the set of a pantomime production two years earlier.