 Seeking to become an actress, Twinka returned to Los Angeles from Marin.For a number of years she lived with the aging novelist Henry Miller in his Pacific Palisades home acting as his cook and caretaker; a family friend of Miller's, she was with him on the day he died.Simultaneously, she worked as an artist's model, becoming a favorite of Robert Heinecken, Judy Dater, Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman, Lucien Clergue, Eikoh Hosoe, Ralph Gibson and Arthur Tress.