 A feature about her titled Student Body appeared in the September 1968 edition of Playboy and was reprinted in the 1971 Playboy special edition The Youth Culture.From 1970 to 1974 she toured the United States and Japan as a stripper, then stayed in Japan for two years, working as a translator, photographer and English teacher.In 1977 she obtained a teaching credential from California State University, Fullerton, then worked as an elementary school teacher until 2005.