On 23 January 1983, she took her first World Cup podium with a third-place finish in giant slalom at St. Gervais.

The following season saw her bag the World cup title in Super-G, finishing 4 points ahead of 1988 Olympic champion Sigrid Wolf.

During her career, she had earnings of more than 20 million French francs, which an uncle was managing on her behalf.

In 1997, she made headlines when she publicly announced she had lost everything and had accumulated more than 70 million in debts, accusing her uncle of mismanaging her fortune.

[3] She later settled away from the ski slopes, in a Camargue farmhouse, to pursue her passion for horses.