Throughout her tenure with Playboy in the 1990s, Monaco was also featured in many Playboy Special Edition publications. in March 2009, Monaco was chosen by Donald Trump and Paula Shugart to be one of the judges for the 2009 Miss USA pageant. They had broken up in 2009, but Kelly was still mourning the loss of the long, but “toxic relationship”, and Monaco’s General Hospital costar Kirsten Storms counseled her through her feelings by convincing her to burn her prom dress in the premiere episode of Dirty Soap, a reality television series on which they both appear.