Her father Luis Gonzaga Quintana Avalos was a lawyer from the city of Puebla in Mexico.
Her Mother Ana María Paz Alatorre was born in Alamos in Sonora to a father from Puebla and a mother from the town of San Pedro Piedra Gorda in the state of Zacatecas.
In her youth, she was the director and main star of the Chapultepec Sports Club's water ballet.