[1] At the age of 15, Rama ran away from home to marry her sweetheart and later gave birth to her only child, Jimmy, a boxer.
[1] She later remarried to a lawyer who was the relative of Osmena family from Cebu but later divorced and taken his last name, "De La Rama", as her stage name.
[1] They travelled together visiting several countries and dating at Tampaksiring castle in Bali, and later married at Baiturrahim Mosque in Jakarta, in 1964, and remained together until Sukarno told her to leave Indonesia during the Transition to the New Order.
[1][2] In 1971, six months after Sukarno's death, Rama was remarried to James Willard Braly, a retired United States Air Force pilot and aide to President Dwight Eisenhower.
[4] Rama started her career as an actress by partaking a minor role in Pangarap Ko’y Ikaw Rin (1947) and Bulakenyo (1949).