Complex sentence: Very little is known of Stavers's childhood and adolescence, except that she was born Gloria Gurganus in Wilmington, North Carolina, had married and divorced young, then moved to New York to start a modeling career.
Split into simpler sentences: Very little is known of Stavers's childhood and adolescence, except that she was born Gloria Gurganus in Wilmington, North Carolina. She had married and divorced young, and moved to New York to start a modeling career.