Bo Derek she makes occasional film, television, and documentary appearances. Derek was born Mary Cathleen Collins in Long Beach, California. Her father, Paul Collins, was a Hobie Cat executive, and her mother, Norma (née White), was a make-up artist and hairdresser to Ann-Margret. Collins' parents divorced, and her mother married American stunt performer Bobby Bass. Collins attended Narbonne High School and George S. Patton Continuation School, both in Harbor City, California. She remarked in a 1985 interview on "Late Night with David Letterman": While attending Narbonne High School in Los Angeles at age 16 in 1973, Collins became romantically involved with John
Margaret S. Collins in "Ecology, the journal of the Ecological Society of America". When Collins received her PhD., she became the third African-American female zoologist and the first African-American female entomologist. Dr. Margaret S. Collins became an assistant professor Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia; while Collins’s first husband, Bernard Strickland attended Howard University’s Medical School. Collins later divorced Strickland and left Howard University because it did not treat its women faculty the same as its men faculty. As a result, Collins started working for Florida A&M University, while there Collins married her second husband Herbert L. Collins and had two sons.