[1] Garotinho comes from a political family, with both her parents serving as governors of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

[2] In January 2016 Garotinho announced that she was engaged to businessman Marcos Altive, and that the couple was expecting their first child.

[3] In 2009 due to controversy surrounding alleged partisan infidelity, Garotinho left the Brazilian Democratic Movement and joined the Party of the Republic.

[1] In 2012 the Garotinho and Maia political families joined to form what was considered by the Brazilian media an unexpected alliance to defeat the then-mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, who was running for reelection.

[8] Garotinho did not vote in the impeachment of then-president Dilma Rousseff,[9] as she said she was unable to make it due to her pregnancy.