She later appeared in the 1968 Spanish romantic drama Días de viejo color. Coccinelle appeared in the 1962 Argentine thriller film Los Viciosos and was the first French trans woman to become a major star, when Bruno Coquatrix splashed her name in red letters on the front of Paris Olympia for her 1963 revue, Cherchez la femme. That same year, Italian singer Ghigo Agosti dedicated the song Coccinella to her, provoking widespread consternation and controversy. In 1959 she appeared in Europa di notte by director Alessandro Blasetti. Historian Joanne Meyerowitz wrote "the more sexualized MTF showed up in the sensationalized press in the stories on Coccinelle, who worked at Le Carrousel in Paris". She very quickly became a media sensation upon her return to France after the operation, with a look and stage act based on the prominent sex symbols of the day. She then married fellow transgender activist Thierry Wilson in 1996. She then married Paraguayan dancer Mario Costa in 1963, who died in 1977. Her marriage to Bonnet was dissolved in 1962. She married French journalist Francis Bonnet in 1960. In 1987, her autobiography was published, titled Coccinelle par Coccinelle. She became a media sensation, and performed the Cherchez la femme revue which ran for 7 months at the Olympia in Paris between 19. She sang the title track of Premier rendez-vous, a 1941 film directed by Henri Decoin.
After the operation, the doctor just said, 'Bonjour, Mademoiselle', and I knew it had been a success."
She said later, "Dr Burou rectified the mistake nature had made and I became a real woman, on the inside as well as the outside.
In 1958, she travelled to Casablanca to undergo a vaginoplasty by Georges Burou. She later performed regularly at the famous nightclub Le Carrousel de Paris, which also featured regular acts by other famous trans women such as April Ashley and Marie-Pier Ysser. 66 in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, she took the stage name Coccinelle (French for " Ladybug") when she entered show business, making her debut as a transgender showgirl in 1953 at Chez Madame Arthur where her mother was a flower seller. Born in Paris at rue Notre Dame de Nazareth Nr.