Heather Thomas, who turned 66 on September 8, was poised for a successful Hollywood career after starring opposite Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.

After the show’s finale, the actor’s mother arrived on site, and the lovely blonde ran to the hospital, thinking her father had an emergency.

Her family and friends at the Santa Monica hospital assured her that her dad, Leon, was OK and that they were worried about her.

After that medical visit, the 28-year-old woman’s life and profession changed forever.

Read on to learn what happened to the 1980s pinup girl!

Heather Thomas was born to act, with talent and beauty to rival Farrah Fawcett and Heather Locklear.

At 14, she hosted Talking with a Giant, an NBC show where she and four other teens questioned celebrities.

Before graduating, Thomas, 66, studied film and theater at UCLA and appeared in the short-lived comedy series Co-Ed Fever (1979). She wanted to become an actress, director, and writer.

Heather Locklear, Heather Thomas

Saturday, June 5, 2021, by Back to 80s
In 1980, the Connecticut native scored her first major job in The Fall Guy, playing the sidekick to Lee Majors, who was famous for playing Steven Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man in the 1970s.

As Jody Banks, a stuntwoman-bounty hunter on the famous action show, Thomas was adored by men who saw her as a sex symbol, a term she admits to having conflicting feelings about.

“There’s obligatory condescension that goes with that,” Thomas told People. “You fit the blonde bimbo stereotype. At that time, I was having fun.”

Unfortunately, she was having too much fun with drugs, a habit she developed before playing Jody Banks.

She began using medications in sixth grade to maintain high grades. Thomas claimed, “I was taking acid and getting straight A’s. I thought it was mentally stimulating.”