In August 2012 Bailey participated in the second season of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) TV documentary series, Go Back to Where You Came From.

[1][2] For her primary school years she lived in the Pambula region, initially on a farm and later in a milk bar in town.

[1] For secondary education she attended Melrose High School in Pearce and then Phillip College in Canberra.

[5] In August 2001 Bailey appeared as Carmen Jefferson for one episode of TV soap opera, Home and Away.

[13] In August 2012 Bailey participated in the second season of the TV documentary series, Go Back to Where You Came From, on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

[18][19] In 2013, Bailey joined John Jarratt and Hunters & Collectors front man Mark Seymour to change thinking on asylum seekers.

[21] The rights to sit in the cage with Bailey and Lindsay McDougall (guitarist for Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb), were auctioned off on eBay by Animal Liberation.

[22] At the age of 16 years Bailey left her family home in Canberra, she moved to Sydney and started a personal relationship with an older man, Ahmed, a Lebanese-Australian and practicing Muslim.

[4] When staying with his family she regularly wore a hijab, and sometimes a burqa:[3][4] "She was a bikini model by day who read the Koran by night.

[23] In September 2008 Bailey revealed she had had anorexia nervosa, in an interview with UK magazine, NOW: "I went through a minor, but still not very good, anorexic stage and actually got down to less than 40 kg".

[24] Her weight loss occurred over about a year from 2000 to 2001 and was influenced by "being surrounded by other anorexics and the stress of a break-up from an unfaithful boyfriend".

[25] On 3 June 2020, KISS FM Host Kyle Sandilands revealed on his show that he has a sexual relationship with Bailey for about 6 months after he was evicted from the Celebrity Big brother house.

Imogen now works as a birth and end of life doula and runs workshops focussed on empowering women.