The actress best known as Daisy Duke is the first to admit it:

Her duties on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-85) were largely ornamental.

Most of the time, she just stood there in a skimpy outfit and looked beautiful.

Nevertheless, Bach did grow weary of being a sex symbol, an image with which she was never comfortable. "The whole time that Dukes of Hazzard was on the air, I didn't have one mirror in my house, not even to brush my teeth. I guess it might sound a little strange, but every time I went to work I had to look at myself and I got sick of it. So I took every mirror out of my house for some time."

In fact, her desire to break free from her Dukes of Hazzard fame reached the point where she took a trip to China, believing no one would recognize her there. "I figured they don't have Dukes of Hazzard in China. So I get to China. I went to the hotel checked  in. And what did I hear in the lobby of the hotel? 'Just good ol' boys...' And I'm saying, 'Oh, my God! I'm in China! I can't believe I'm hearing Waylon Jennings on the TV!'"

Don't get the wrong idea, though. Bach, an Ohio native who turned 44 this year, is very fond of the show. In fact, she was the driving force behind the 1997 Dukes TV movie,  Reunion in Hazzard, which reunited cast members for the first time since the series ended its seven-year run in 1985. Yet Bach, who also costarred with Robert Mitchum for three seasons in African Skies    ), works relatively little today because of marriage and motherhood.

She and her husband, Peter Lopez (an entertainment lawyer who, among other things, manages musician Glenn Frey), make their home in Los Angeles with their two-year year old daughter.