She has a younger brother, Christian. However, in the finish she was voted absent on February 8, 2003, and thus got fourth place in the competition. As of 2007, she holds the evidence intended for the most times in the bottom three on the sequence. In summer 2003 Struhler (at the present performing under her pseudonym Vanessa S. Vanessa Stuhler's second album Self-government was released in 2004.

At present, the singer is usually focusing on Eastern European and Asian markets, plus she now finished her Promo Tour in China and gave a concert in Poland.