 She eventually returned to Iowa to work with Hawthorne Direct, an infomercial producer, with whom she did work for Time, OxyClean, and Clorox.Solinger competed as Miss Iowa Teen USA in the 1992 Miss Teen USA pageant, broadcast from Biloxi, Mississippi on 25 August 1992.Although the pageant was to be televised live, the threat of Hurricane Andrew meant the pageant had to be recorded earlier.