On 5 March 1960, Matausch was born in either
Brignoles or
Cabasse in
Var, France. She is the oldest of four children to a mining father from Czechoslovakia called Eric Matausch and a mother by the name of Nadine Matausch ( Bonamy) who worked as a cermacist in a workshop. Matausch had some relatives who were painters, and she became interested in painting when she was in her teenage years, something her father disapproved of because he believed she would abuse drugs and not obtain employment. In mid-1982, Matausch began her career in journalism as an intern member of the editorial staff at the ''
newspaper. She went on to read the news on the Amiens'' programme at the
France 3 Bourgogne television station and then read the local
Picardy newspaper from November 1982. She took further time off work between March and May 2022 due to illness and was replaced by Christophe Gascard, and
Sophie Le Saint during that period. After Matausch rejected an offer to work at
La Chaîne Info to focus on her family, she is due to stop reading the national news on France 3 when
France Télévisions closes its France 3 national news service and replace it with 24 regional services in September 2023. Since 2006, she has exhibited her art works at art galleries and has also promoted fellow artists. She works with dry pastels, turpentine and watercolour, and signs her paintings under the pseudonym CathMath. ==Personal life==