 The death of her second child as a baby, who went blind before expiring of vaccination complications, heightened her interest in children's eyesight and related problems involved in many dyslexia cases.Her first marriage in 1947, while an actress employed at "Dramaten", was to Gabriel "Toto" Tchang (1919–1980), the son of a former Chinese Ambassador to Sweden, from whom she was divorced in 1957.They had three children