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Florence filed law suits against two companies because of the unauthorized use of her photo - Serial Killer, Inc. had been using her face on a t-shirt with the name "Porn Queen" underneath. A Cotati, Ca. gift shop also used her picture in an ad. [May 1999] Youngest of 10 children born to an Indiana sharecropper and his homemaker wife Children with Bernstein: Barbara, Joseph, Robert, and Elizabeth. Her husband, Dr. John Kappas, is a hypnotherapist, and he and Florence met when he helped her battle depression during the mid-1980s. She flew to New York City every weekend during the run of The Brady Bunch (which filmed in LA) in order to be with her family. In the mid-1950s, she was diagnosed with a bone deformation of the inner ear, and she had to have surgery to prevent deafness. Graduated from Indiana's St. Frances School in 1951, and then studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. She earned a scholarship to AADA because of her singing talent. Was a The Today Show girl from 1959-1960, and later went on to co-host the short lived spinoff series Later Today from 1999-2000. Was the first woman to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Is a licensed hypnotherapist. She learned about hypnotherapy from her late husband, John Kappas. Prefers to apply her own makeup.