A journalism junior at University of Santo Tomas before entering showbiz, she wants to be like her favorite, the fictional character Brenda Starr.
After she did No Man Is an Island (1962), she was offered a five-year contract by Universal Studio. But she turned it down and decided to marry her boyfriend Robert Arevalo. She was then pregnant. She revealed that she only accepted the first American movie to have the rare opportunity to go to Hollywood to see her favorite stars.
Due to her doe eyes, pixie face, swan-like neck and 19-inch waistline, she was tagged as the Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines.
Room mate of Amalia Fuentes in their Sampaguita Pictures compound dormitory.