Phillips married Luke McKissack on September 16, 1973, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk officiated at the wedding and Herb Alpert performed. Phillips wore an "antique lace gown". Eppie Lederer and her husband and Irving Stone and his wife were among the attendees. She called him a "brilliant, charming, talented" , and he was a California lawyer. The marriage was not successful. She planned to remain single but later fell in love again. In 2001, she married her second husband, a real estate investor named Walter Harris.