She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a news photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector.

At age 16, she moved alone to London, England where she became a musician, playing drums with local punk bands. At 18, she turned to fashion modelling for three years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties .

She is now a fiction writer and the author of six novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries. She also publishes short stories in magazines and co-wrote Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same title.

She has been romantically involved with musicians from the London eighties rock scene and is also known to have had bisexual affairs.

She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature" : "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me ".

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