Was once engaged to Japan's foremost athletic hero, sumo champion
Takanohana, in what was called the Japanese version of the Joe
DiMaggio-Marilyn Monroe marriage, but the engagement was broken off by
Takanohana because his father (who was also the manage of his sumo
stable) felt that it would not be appropriate for a sumo wrestler to be
married to someone who was not fully ethnically Japananese, and would
possibly overshadow him in the limelight.