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Both Starbuck and Shelley attended Downey High School, where they performed off-ice lifts with the cheerleading squad, and Long Beach State College.
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Starbuck was raised in Downey, California. She was first paired with Shelley for a show in 1959, when they were small children. They started training seriously with coach John Nicks at the Arctic Blades FSC in 1961.
In their first year of senior competitions, when they were both 16 years old, they qualified to compete at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Like Shelley, Starbuck was also a skilled singles skater. After turning professional, Starbuck made occasional appearances skating singles in addition to continuing to skate pairs with Shelley.
She partnered John Curry in the "Tango Tango" number from his show Ice Dancing. From 1976-1983, Starbuck was married to Pittsburgh Steelers and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw.
She was Bradshaw"s second wife.
During this time she also became well known as the face of Cup of Noodles, introducing millions of Americans for the first time to ramen. She currently is affiliated with the Rink at Rockefeller Plaza a position she has had since the 1990s. She had a minor career as an actress, performing in New York Stories (1989), The Cutting Edge (1992), and the television movie Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice (1996).
She continues to coach and choreograph.
Starbuck lives in Madison, New Jersey, where she teaches at the Essex Skating Club of New Jersey. (pairs with Kenneth Shelley).
