Ilona Staller was born on November 26, 1951 in Budapest. Her father, Lรกszlรณ Staller, abandoned the family at a young age, and Ilona grew up with her mother, under the supervision of her stepfather, an Interior Ministry official. In 1964, the Hungarian news agency M.T.I. The young woman, who started working as a model for , recalled in a television interview in 1999 that, as a maid working in a luxury hotel in Budapest in the 1960s, she gave information about American diplomats.
When she was 25, she met and married Salvatore Martini, an older Italian man, thanks to an acquaintance from her hotel business.
After moving to Italy for marriage, she met Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s and became known for her radio program "Voulezโvous coucher avec moi" from 1973. In this program, she adopted the nickname โCicciolinaโ; This name meant โlittle chubbyโ and was referred to as โciccioliniโ by her male fan base, which Ilona humorously interpreted as โlittle fat boysโ.
He starred in many films since the 1970s; In 1975, she attracted attention with a lesbian scene with Gloria Guida. In 1978, she became one of the first Italian women to show her breasts live on RAI's "C'era due Volte" program.
Turning to the political field, Staller was nominated for the Italian parliament from the Green Party through Lista del Sole in 1979. He joined Partito Radicale in 1985 and carried out human rights-themed campaigns, taking a libertarian stance on issues such as nuclear energy and NATO membership. He entered the parliament by receiving approximately 20,000 votes in the 1987 elections and became a different figure in Italian politics in this process.
