

However, she decided to move to New York to further her modeling career. She also appeared on television in 1967 as a dancer in Malibu U. Commercials followed suit in Los Angeles. She entered her first contest and won a modelling assignment in St. She briefly attended college at UCLA, majoring in mathematics, but she left school to pursue a career in modeling and moved to New York. Gray attended Redwood High School and finished her last semester at Pacific Palisades High School. Eventually she and her mother moved to Larkspur, California. Gray lived with her grandparents in Palm Springs for a few years. When Gray was eight, her parents separated.

Gray was born on January 7, 1950, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now, the state of Hawaii), the daughter of Diane and Daniel Gray.
