Her mother, a Spanish woman, was a member of a Franco-British resistance network in World War II and decorated as such by the Queen of the United Kingdom.

It was expected that beginning in March 2007 she would be acting presenter of the weekend news show for a few months, as Schönberg was temporarily dismissed from her post during the election campaign because of her marriage to Jean-Louis Borloo, a government minister.

She is founder and president of PFDM, (Pour les femmes dans les médias – For women in the media), an association for women leaders in the media, and president of the Club des Amis du Refuge, an association for people active in Le Refuge in giving shelter to young people driven from their homes because of their homosexuality.

In February 2012, Laborde and Denise Bombardier were accused by the website Acrimed [fr] of plagiarism in connection with their 2011 book Ne vous taisez plus!.

[6] She has two sons from a previous relationship with Manuel Joaquim, TF1 reporter,[7] winner of the Albert Londres prize, who died in 2006.