Fallowing graduating from either Colonial High School around Orlando, she won a Miss Florida title for 1973. Burke was paired with Georgia, Gail Nelson, in the Miss America pageant in 1974, and won a talent scholarship allowing her to attend a two-year study program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She occurs as designer & manager of the wear company Delta Burke Project within New York City. Delta has been married to actor Gerald McRaney since 1989.

Ever since a early 1990s, Delta's weight has been a subject of discussion in the tabloid click. Actually, her struggles by owning weight & feeding disorders stretch back to her pageant times in the early 1970s. She was fired from either Designing Women once relations between Burke & her co-stars, especially Dixie Carter, deteriorated. Speculation in a click labeled the understanding for her firing to exist as her weight benefit.

Delta went within to star in her have tv program, Delta, & inside Women of the Home (reprising her Suzanne Sugarbaker role forswearing a more Designing Women actresses).

In the early 2000s, she co-starred by having David Alan Grier on the sitcom DAG; she had misused lot of her supererogatory weight for the role fallowing existence diagnosed by owning diabetes.

Selected Filmography
Good Boy! (2003) Going for Broke (2003) What Women Want (2000) Melanie Darrow (1997) Women of the Home (1995) Delta (1992) Designing Women (1986) Filthy Rich (1982)

Nonfiction
''Delta Style: Eve Wasn't the Size 6 & Neither Am We'' (1998, St. Martin's Click ;ISBN 0312154542 )