She is also the inventor of the 2suit. A portrait of her as a young girl was drawn by Florentine artist Pietro Annigoni. She was a model of Woman for the Frederick Hart work "Creation of Mankind" (Ex Nihilo) on the front entrance of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of an Italian fine-arts painter and American military officer, and the granddaughter of Luigi Ugolini.