She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue.
Began attending the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City
when she was only 13.
Her son Adam Mandela Walden has moderate/severe autism and epilepsy. He was diagnosed as having savant syndrome (type: Music), is an award-winning cellist and autism advocate and was enrolled at Boston's Berklee College of Music.