Career
Her breakthrough role came in 1972 with the film Junior Bonner, which she starred alongside her then-boyfriend Steve McQueen. She later became the first model to wear the Vampirella costume on the cover of the original Warren Vampirella magazine, #67 (March 1978). Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia.
In 2002, she published a memoir titled The King, McQueen, and The Love Machine (), which accounts her romances with McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Jim Aubrey in the early 1970s.
In January 2014, Barbara Leigh retired from Playboy Enterprises Incorporated. after working with the company for almost 17 years.