She entered politics in 2006, when she was elected MP with Forza Italia.

She was re-elected MP in 2008, among the ranks of The People of Freedom.

She also served as Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet, from 2008 to 2011.

In 2011 she left the PdL and founded the Italian Reformists.

[3] She married twice: to entrepreneur Renato Neri, with whom she had her son Federico (1987); and to Marco Bassetti, former president of the television distribution company Endemol, now in charge of Banijay, with whom she had daughters Benedetta and Anita (1991).