Her older brother, George Brandreth Borup (1885–1912), was assistant to Robert Peary on the North Pole Expedition, and wrote a book about his experiences in the Arctic.

[2][3] Yvette Borup Andrews was an ethnographic photographer and filmmaker[4] for the American Museum of Natural History.

[6] Soon after their 1931 divorce, Roy Chapman Andrews told an audience that "Physically and intellectually, women may be the equals of men for the work of exploration, but temperamentally they are not.

[7] In 1940, she was active with the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, volunteering as a "Minute Woman" at a phone bank to build support for the United States' entry into World War II.

[10][11] She died in a 1959 traffic accident, near Bahabón de Esgueva, in the province of Burgos, Spain, aged 68 years.