[4] In 1991, Bendinger directed a music video for Queen Latifah's song "Fly Girl.
She was also a writer and creative consultant for Sex and the City, as well as a producer of the 2005 film The Wedding Date, starring Debra Messing.
Bendinger is a former model who worked for designer Stephen Sprouse, and appeared on the runway in the film Slaves of New York.
In 2011, the Writers Guild of America filed an injunction against the creators of Bring It On: The Musical, arguing that Bendinger had rights in the licensing of the theater production.
In 2019 Bendinger, alongside her friend Michael Seligman, a writer for RuPaul's Drag Race, hosted the podcast Mob Queens, uncovering the forgotten history of Anna Genovese, wife of mobster Vito Genovese, who testified against him in court and ran drag clubs in Greenwich Village.