A small group, to be sure, probably about the same size as the subset of stars who are also Polynesian dancers. Peeples belongs to that one too, thanks to lessons she had when she was 7 years old and growing up in Hollywood, the daughter of two computer programmers. (Her father, Robert, is Scottish, and her mother, Elizabeth, is Filipino—hence Peeples's exotic looks.) The dancing was Dad's idea. "He knew this woman from Tahiti who taught Polynesian dances." Peeples says. "So he had her come over and teach me and my two sisters [Paula, now a 32-year-old housewife, and Cynthia, 27, an aspiring actress-dancer]."