Overview

• She was warned as a young teenager by a doctor that having biological children would likely be difficult.
• After falling in love at age 40 she ended the relationship upon learning the man was married, making motherhood impossible.
• She married physician Pit Matthaes in the early 1990s when she was already in her late 40s, ruling out childbearing.
• Her earlier romances included partnerships with CDU politician Volker Rühe and director Dieter Wedel before her marriage.
• In a recent 'May Way' podcast she described feeling unloved in childhood after her parents deemed her not 'beautiful enough'; she also spoke about living with a congenital hand injury.