The Life of Pop Star and TV Icon Connie Stevens

In 1969, she and Eddie Fisher divorced after two years of marriage, ending another highly publicized Hollywood relationship. The split left her raising daughters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher while continuing to maintain her demanding entertainment career.

Because of Fisher’s earlier marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, the relationship had attracted constant media attention from the beginning. After the divorce, she faced the challenge of balancing motherhood, celebrity visibility, and professional work at the same time. Even with major personal changes unfolding in her private life, she soon committed herself to a very different kind of public role overseas.