The youngest of thirteen children, Vachon was raised on a farm near Montreal, Quebec.

[6] She became the American Wrestling Association's (AWA) Women's Champion for a time, defeating Kay Noble on November 4, 1971.

[1] That same year in November, she married Canadian Armed Forces member Gary Carnegie, with whom she had two children, Ian (born 1980) and Julie Lynn (1982-1991).

[1] Vachon and her nine-year-old daughter Julie died in a car accident on August 24, 1991.

They were hit by a drunk driver who had run a stop sign in Mont Saint-Grégoire at the corner of route 104 and Rang de la Montagne.