In addition to her television work, she has also appeared in films like “Airplane”, “Sandman”, “6 Degrees of Hell”, and “A Christmas Tree Miracle”. She was placed as #66 on VH1’s “The Greatest: 100 Greatest Kid Stars”. Whelan has been married twice, first to Brad St. John from 1993-1996 and later to Michel Chaykowsky; the pair divorced in 2014. In 2015, she appeared on the hit reality series, “Celebrity Wife Swap”, where she traded lives with Charo.