Met Alain Delon in a Paris nightclub when she was 21. Delon kept their affair from his then lover Romy Schneider before marrying Nathalie in secret in August 1964.
Had a daughter, Nathalie.
Was born in Oujda, part of the former French Protectorate of Morocco, to a family of Spanish origin. She was the daughter of Louis Canovas and Antonietta Rodriguez.
