Bernbach. Impressed with her shapely legs, he offered her a contract to model in commercials for his client Christian Dior's leg wear. From that national exposure, her modeling career blossomed. Soon she became one of Mexico's top models. Large international companies used her image to advertise their product. She appeared on billboards, TV commercials, magazines such as Vanity, in major newspapers, and she modeled in Haute couture fashion shows for Catalina Swimwear, Chanel, Dior, and El Palacio de Hierro. Not unlike the well known model Suzy Parker, modeling became Nancy's springboard into acting in movies that is until her marriage to Rodolfo Nieto. Marriage Newly married to the fine arts painter Rodolfo Nieto, her husband preferred that she did not continue to work in movies because when she was on location, he missed her. On the other hand, modeling took her away from home for a few hours; therefore, he encouraged her to continue modeling. Which she did when she was not helping him prepare canvasses. Rodolfo Nieto was a prolific painter who often worked on numerous canvasses—up to ten canvasses at one time—he'd work intensely for long periods of time at home in his studio. They had met at the grand opening of the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros named after the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Nancy was impressed with Rodolfo's "impeccable sense of style. When I first saw him-- tall and lean, with a shock of dark wavy hair that contrasted interestingly with his cat-like green eyes, he was wearing a beautiful European cut tweed jacket, with corduroy trousers, a silk shirt, and a pink ascot around his neck." He likewise was attracted to the beautiful actress / model, but when he discovered that she also was a painter, a few months later on September 11, 1971, they married in the Civil registry in the Colonia Coyoacán. They spent years together painting with a constant effort to stretch their artistic endeavors. Blending the Mexican tradition and contemporary art concepts, they studied Pre-Columbian art and architecture in Oaxaca, Jalapa, Guerrero, Veracruz, Chiapas and Mexico City. They also visited European museums and lived for a while in Paris. A devotion to the creative experience was the uniting bond between the two artists whose favorite evening activity was listening to music and studying art books. Skull Art After Rodolfo Nieto's death in June 1985, the following November 1st—the Day of the Dead—in