She also starred in the comedies The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak and Bachelor Party (both 1984), and the horror film Witchboard (1986).

Kitaen garnered widespread recognition for her appearances in a number of music videos, including Ratt's "Back for More" (1984) and Whitesnake's "Still of the Night", "Is This Love" and "Here I Go Again" (all 1987).

[11] Kitaen modeled and appeared in television commercials for Jack LaLanne's European Health Spas in the early 1980s.

[14] Her other film appearances include Bachelor Party (1984) as the bride-to-be of Tom Hanks' character,[15] and starring roles in the minor box office hit Witchboard (1986),[16] White Hot, and Dead Tides.

[14] Kitaen joined the cast of the sixth edition of the VH1 reality television show The Surreal Life, which began airing in March 2006.

[28] In November 2006, prosecutors charged Kitaen with possessing 15 grams of cocaine in her San Juan Capistrano home in Orange County.

[29] In December 2006, Kitaen entered a six-month rehabilitation program in exchange for the dismissal of a felony drug-possession charge.

[32] The following July, she pleaded no contest to misdemeanor DUI and was sentenced to two days in jail, ordered to attend a first-offender alcohol program and required to perform 64 hours of community service.

[34] Kitaen died at her Newport Beach home on May 7, 2021, at the age of 59, from heart issues and drug ingestion.

[38] In October 2021, the Orange County coroner's office announced Kitaen's official cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy, a common type of heart disease.