Winning Miss Holland would therefore give her a chance to be crowned Miss International 1962 in Long Beach, California and to succeed compatriot Stam van Baer.

Lodders placed 3rd Runner-Up to eventual winner Tania Verstak of Australia.

"[2] On 12 December 1963, as a 21-year-old Dutch model and former beauty queen from Haarlem, the Netherlands,[3] Lodders accepted the marriage proposal[4] of 22-year-old American singer/songwriter/dancer Chubby Checker.

They married on 12 April 1964 at Temple Lutheran Church in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

[7] Their first child, Bianca Johanna Evans, was born in Philadelphia on 8 December 1966.