Her parents, who lived in Niš at the time, were visiting Zlata's grandmother Nadica in the small town Svrljig when Milica went into labor.
Her parents divorced after her mother wished to settle in Belgrade, while her father wanted to stay in his hometown of Niš.
In the British capital she met many people from the world of show business and gave an interview for the famous TV network BBC.
Her career slowed down in her later years but she still had several roles in popular television shows such as Selo gori, a baba se češlja.
Aged 19, Petković had a son named Gvozden in July 1973 with her first husband that she met while attending a dramatic arts academy in Zagreb.
[4] She later was married to Sanja Ilić, composer and keyboardist, who was the front man of the 1970s Yugoslav rock band San.