In 1983, she succeeded in a music competition held in Jihlava and met the singer Petr Sepéši, with whom she later collaborated and started a relationship.

[3] In the second half of the 1980s, she began collaborating with notable exponents of Czech pop music, such as František Janeček and Ladislav Štaidl, her life partner for many years.

With the start of the new millennium, her popularity decreased, partly due to scandals surrounding her personal life.

Since October 2012, she appeared in a reality show about her life, broadcast by the tabloid TV channel Pětka.

[6] From 2008 to 2009, she was married to the actor and film producer Jiří Pomeje, her second husband was Josef Rychtář (from 2013 to her death in 2014).

[15] On the other hand, the psychologist Jeroným Klimeš pointed out in the Slovak newspaper SME that Bartošová knowingly and voluntarily participated in the media circus concerning her personal life.

[18][19] The series about the beginnings of the career of one of the most talented Czech singers Iveta Bartošová was filmed by director Michal Samir.

On 8th April, 2024 a three-part document "Málo mě znáš" (translated to english "you don't know me well") premiered on Voyo.cz platform,[20][21] directed by Tomáš Klein.