Background
Smithers grew up with her parents and three sisters in Woodland Hills, California, and attended William Howard Taft High School there.
Smithers grew up with her parents and three sisters in Woodland Hills, California, and attended William Howard Taft High School there.
She first reached the public eye as a teenager when she was featured on the March 21, 1966, cover of Newsweek, seated on a motorcycle. Smithers"s first marriage was to Kipp Whitman from 1971 to 1972. Smithers retired from show business in 1987.
After living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, she now lives in Ojai, California.
In June 2014, Smithers attended a reunion of WKRP cast members hosted by the Paley Center for Media.