"[2]After visiting her father at work, Storms convinced her parents to enroll her in acting classes, leading to her discovery by a talent scout at the age of five.
She was later chosen to play the title character in Disney Channel's original movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.
Storms continued to appear in a string of family shows and television movies, including The Trojan Horse, a Hallmark production.
On August 5, 1999, Storms signed on to play Isabella "Belle" Black on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives.
Although she initially faced upset viewers at the sudden SORAS aging her casting brought to the character, Storms soon was popular with the audience.
[6] Clubhouse was a primetime television series that aired on CBS starting the fall of 2004, created by Daniel Cerone and produced by Aaron Spelling.
Unlike the innocent character of Belle that Kirsten had just left, Betsy was a rebellious teenager often finding herself in trouble over such issues as sex, drugs, and alcohol.
[citation needed] Storms returned to familiar territory on May 23, 2005, becoming the third actress to portray Mariah Maximiliana "Maxie" Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
[citation needed] In March 2017, Soap Opera Spy reported that Storms was leaving the show for "personal reasons".
In August 2013, the couple confirmed to People that they had secretly wed in June, and were expecting their first child, a girl, in January 2014.
[21] On April 6, 2016, Soap Opera Digest revealed that Storms and Barash had filed for divorce after more than two-and-a-half years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, but they will raise their daughter together as they are splitting amicably.
[22] Storms was pulled over on a Los Angeles freeway on September 7, 2007, by California Highway Patrol for tossing a lit cigarette out of the window of her Mercedes.