Katarína Tóthová was born in Bratislava, she was a high school classmate of the actor Milan Lasica.
At the time Tóthová did not feel ready for the job, fearing that political involvement would discredit her academic work.
In 1992 she was offered the Government post again, this time by the prime minister Vladimír Mečiar.
While Tóthová herself was not personally involved in major scandals, she was a prominent face of the ruling Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS)[3] and an outspoken advocate of the government, claiming that Slovakia was a victim of a "systematic campaign of libel and disinformation".
[1] After the defeat HZDS suffered in the 1998 Slovak parliamentary election, Tóthová became an MP of the National Council.