She appeared on the cover of magazines like Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Self and Cosmopolitan.

[1] She started to be a swimmer at the age of six and began to swim competitively through her senior year at Lockport High School.

[2] Alexis was one of the top models of the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s, identified along with Gia Carangi, Patti Hansen, Christie Brinkley, Kelly Emberg, Iman, Janice Dickinson, and Paulina Porizkova.

[3] In the early 1990s, Alexis hosted health shows, such as Healthy Kids on the Family Channel[4] and Lifetime.

[7] Alexis is divorced from former NHL hockey player Ron Duguay, with whom she has a son, Noah (born 1994).