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In the entertainment world, everyone knows who “Vanna” is no last name required.

All of White’s enthusiastic clapping didn’t go unnoticed by the folks at Guinness World Records.

Vanna White smiling

In 2015, they named her themost frequent clapperon the planet.

At the time, she had racked up an astounding 3,721,446 claps.

DespiteWhite’s impressive net worthnow, in her early days in Hollywood, she struggled financially.

Vanna White smiling

“At one point, I was really strapped for cash.

“Her dire financial situation led her to do something she deeply regretted afterward.

Vanna White accepted a job out of desperation

Vanna White took a job modeling lingerie.

Vanna White and Hugh Hefner

But the saga didn’t end there.

The magazine scheduled the lingerie photos to be printed the same month that White’s memoir was being released.

Her lawyers filed the first one in February 1987 in state court.

The second lawsuit was filed in March 1987 in federal court.

According to AP News, this lawsuit argued that the game show star owned the photos' copyright.

However, White soon dropped both lawsuits.

Though the lawsuits disappeared, White’s regret about the lingerie photos endured.

In a 2017 interview withFox News, she said that the whole experience taught her an important lesson.

“Never do anything that you don’t want to do.

Listen to your instincts and follow it,” she said.

“It was a great lesson to learn, but what can I say?

I did something I shouldn’t have done.”