Her representation of an old couple sitting on a bench in Copenhagen's Kultorvet is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Hyldemoer or The Little Elder-Tree Mother.
In 1962, she married the sculptor Erik Varming (born 1942) with whom she had four children: Johan Ludvig (1964), Signe Marie (1965), Karen Margrethe (1969) and Hans Jacob (1972).
As a result of dyslexia, she had difficulty reading but had shown interest in drawing and creating figures with plasticine from an early age.
After she left school in 1955, her parents thought it would be good for her to develop her artistic abilities and sent her to work at the Royal Porcelain Factory where she soon began to create little flowers for Flora Danica series.
He encouraged her to take private painting and sculpture lessons under Knud Brønsted in preparation for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.