Shelley was one of the Supermodels of the 1970s, one of the highest-paid models of the era; so it wasn't a surprise that Hollywood began to take notice of her. Her big break came in 1979 when she was cast as Tiffany Welles in Charlie's Angels. She knew she had to ready herself for the kind of lifestyle change joining the show would bring. But she wasn't aware of how much change that would be. "I was totally unprepared for the press "bonanza" that followed," she said in 2000. As THE Charlie Girl, she told one reporter in 1979, "I had done a lot of press before. There was so much to do then, so you just deal with it." But the Supermodel wasn't aware that she was entering a totally different space, rock star space. "I was surprised by the amount of attention," she said. "I had press people crawling in my windows," she told E! in 2002. She suddenly found herself caught in the worldwide frenzy of Charlie's Angels.
