[3][4] Daughter of a merchant father, leave to Petrópolis, at Rio de Janeiro interior, for study a traditional colegial in the city.
[6] According to the writer and journalist, Ruy Castro, she was one of the main characters of Rio's nightlife, being admired by the women who frequented those environments.
[8] At the age of seventeen, she married Carlos Eduardo de Souza Campos, popularly known as Didu.
[9][10] A Banco do Brasil (BB) employee, Didu supplemented his income from the economic reserves left by his father, Vilobaldo de Sousa Campos, former director of the state bank.
[12] The couple lived in a twenty-room house built by Vilobaldo located in Copacabana and received personalities such as Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth.