Beginning early in November, 1998, after college graduation, she took a year-long trip around the world with friend Dawn Gilbert. First visiting the Cook Islands, she then went to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Tokyo, Nepal and India by March 1999. At that point, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, and then Europe remained on her plans.
Bra size is 34 B
Graduated from Los Gatos (California) High School and San Francisco State University.
Younger sister, Summer Byron, graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1996, then earned a communications degree from Sonoma State University.
She studied film and sculpture at San Francisco State University.
Is a vegetarian.
After graduation, she had a career as an artist, working in sculpture and painting and holding exhibitions at some of San Francisco's leading galleries.
Was once a face-painting clown.
Once helped resuscitate a dying duck during a myth on Mythbusters which went wrong.