Is of Italian, German, Russian and Jewish Egyptian descent.
Her mother was a psychologist and her father was a researcher in thermonuclear physics.
Was raised without television.
Gave birth to her first child, a son named Lazare on December 3, 2004 in hospital Saint-Antoine of
Paris. Father is her partner Éric Lartigau.
Has two younger sisters, Giulia and Elena, and one older brother, Fabio. Giulia is a journalist on the channel I-Télé and Elena is a doctor in a hospital. Her brother Fabio died in 1999 of an airplane crash.