At the time of the Polanski incident her step-father Bob published 'Marijuana Monthly', a magazine for cannabis smokers. According to Geimer, her stepfather Bob, her mother
Susan Gailey and she herself were flattered by Polanski's attention and quickly agreed to his photo shoot offer. Geimer already had a modeling portfolio before the incident. Polanski had the following assignment from the French Vogue: He would shoot a series of photographs about young girls, that would, he says in his autobiography, "show girls as they really were these days - sexy, pert, and thoroughly human".