An emergency room nurse, Conger was a contestant on the 2000 "reality show" Who Wants To Marry a Multimillionaire? At show's end she was chosen by groom Rick Rockwell; the two were married on the spot and catapulted into trash-TV fame. Within a few days the couple declared they would have the marriage annulled. Both remained hot items in the press for months, and Conger gained new exposure when she posed for Playboy magazine.