Born in Morro do Chapéu, she had a rapid ascent in distance running beginning at the age of 24 after joining the BM&F Bovespa athletics club and working with coach Adauto Domingues.

[2][3][4] She failed a doping test at a 10-mile race in Brazil, being positive for the banned stimulant Oxilofrine, and was suspended from December 2010 to February 2011.

[1] She was retrospectively banned, but competed at the Saint Silvester Road Race in the meantime, taking second place behind Alice Timbilil.

[9] However, her doping sample at that competition came back positive for erythropoietin (EPO), a banned blood boosting substance.

She was provisionally suspended from October 2011 onwards and Clube de Atletismo BM&F Bovespa cut ties with her.