Is an only child. Her parents are both doctors: her father is a plastic surgeon and her mother is a pediatrician. Her paternal grandfather was a doctor in a village near Aveiro who went to Brazil for many years and where he married her paternal grandmother from Santos, before he returned Portugal with his wife. Her maternal grandfather was a Director of the Hospital of Covilhã and both he and her maternal grandmother, with whom she lived for three years and now both deceased, were from there and lived there.