A resident of Old Tappan, New Jersey, she married her co-star Jon Hensley (Holden Snyder) on May 25, 1996. Together, she and Hensley have three children. In May 2017, Menighan Hensley announced she had divorced Hensley back in 2013.
Hensley also made a cross-over to the daytime drama, The Young and the Restless on March 27, 2007 portraying Emily Stewart opposite Adrienne Frantz's Amber Moore.
In 2012, Hensley appeared on the Showtime dark satire series Reality Show. She played Katherine Warwick, the matriarch of a family being recorded for a reality TV series without their knowledge or permission.
From 2013–14, Hensley portrayed Veronica Ashton on the soap opera web series Tainted Dreams.
