Carol Merrill spent the first ten years of her life on a farm in Wisconsin. When she was 11 her family moved to Southern California. While still in High School, Carol won a beauty pageant and was crowned Miss Azusa. One of her prizes was a place in a modeling class. While a student at Pasadena City College Carol was offered her first modeling job. Her career took off, later including television commercials, movies and television shows. Carol is best know for her 14 years on the game show, Let's Make a Deal. In the late 1980s Carol and her husband moved to Hawaii, where she is involved in promoting organic foods and living a healthy lifestyle.