Candice Michelle began her entertainment career as
a professional model and actress. A lot of this "modeling"
includes a adult-video past, including softcore and fetish
videos. A lot of this work was under the name
Mackenzie
Montgomery
In the summer of 2004, she participated in the WWE RAW Diva
Search contest. She was later signed to a WWE contract despite
not being part of the 10 finalists. In November 2004, she
began to make appearances on Raw, participating in many diva
contests which continued into 2005.
On February 6th 2005, she was featured in GoDaddy.com's controversial
Superbowl commercial which created a lot of internet buzz.
On June 30th 2005
Candice Michelle was traded
to Smackdown, but her time on Smackdown would be short lived.
On August 22nd 2005, Torrie Wilson &
Candice Michelle
were traded to RAW for
Stacy Keibler &
Christy
Hemme who went to Smackdown. Torrie & Candice then
turned heels side by attacking the 2005 Diva Search winner
Ashley
Massaro. They later teamed up with Victoria and
they went on to compete in Raw Diva Contests & Match-ups for
the rest of the year. They were later known as "Vince's Devils."

In early 2006, buzz was already going around about
Candice
Michelle gracing the cover of
Playboy,
and to promote this, she turned against Torrie Wilson. On
March 6th 2006's edition of RAW,
Candice Michelle
unveiled her Playboy and taunted Torrie Wilson into saying
that her Playboy issue was the best of all past WWE Divas.
A reluctant Torrie was then attacked by
Candice
throughout the weeks leading up to April 2, 2006 at WrestleMania
22 when Torrie Wilson would defeat
Candice Michelle
in a Playboy Pillow Fight.
Candice then wrestled
throughout the year in WWE Women's matches and participated
in contests.
In 2007 the WWE began to push
Candice as
a wrestler. In April, she began a feud against Melina Perez,
which led her to become the WWE Women's champion on June 24th
2007 at the Vengeance Pay per View. She later feuded with
Beth
Phoenix for the Women's title. On October 7,
2007 at No Mercy, Beth Phoenix defeated Candice Michelle to
capture the WWE Women's title. The feud continued and on October
22, 2007 on RAW Beth Phoenix defeated
Candice Michelle
to retain the title. During the match, Candice took a nasty
fall in a botched move, she cracked her clavicle and was put
out of action.
In January of 2008, more of
Candice's questionable
past was brought into the media in the height of an American
Gladiators revival when unreleased footage of her and American
Gladiator competitor
Belinda Gavin was leaked
on the net from a softcore pornographic video.