In a 2013 interview in "Stop the Presses", she said that the other two "ZZ Top" girls in the 1984 music video ZZ Top: Legs (1984) didn't get along with each other and especially with her: "They were always pushing me to the back".
Although her cause of death was not announced, in her obituary it was asked for those who wanted to make a donation in Kym's memory to do so to the American Cancer Society to further the research of the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.