Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
In June 1951, two days after Phillips's seventh birthday, the family relocated again to , where her father had enrolled to study sociology on the at.
She said it was her decision to focus more on motherhood than show business.
He had just had a benign tumor removed — something she expected, but was nonetheless emotional about.
You know I'm gonna make it - come and join me! What do I want to do with the rest of my life? While working as a model in , she met and married John Phillips in 1962 and went on to co-found the vocal group the Mamas and the Papas in 1965.
Phillips continued to appear in the series until 1986.