Personal Life
Fabares is a lifelong friend of Annette Funicello whom she met in catechism class in the seventh grade. She also is the niece of singer-actress Nanette Fabray.
Fabares married Jan & Dean's record producer, Lou Adler, in June 1964, separating in 1966 and divorcing in 1980. In 1984 Fabares married actor Mike Farrell, and is stepmother to his two children, Erin and Michael.
In October 2000 she received a life-saving liver transplant after being diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by John Vierling, M.D.
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