Worked as a waitress in Sydney and a model in New York, Paris and Milan.
Lives with her children Lina Otti Petronella (b. June 2004) and Henry Victor Nepumuk (b. 12 July 2008) in Berlin. Father of them is her former longtime companion Torsten Schulz.
Born to an Austrian father and a German mother, she grew up in Erlangen, Germany.