in a still from
The Damned Venus (1967) Libertad Leblanc's paternal grandfather was a
Slovenian landowner, who settled in
Río Negro. She was named by her father Libertad, which means "Freedom" in the
Spanish Language. Her father was a handy businessman who was murdered, and whose skill for business and negotiation she inherited and would later use frequently as an actress. Libertad was considered "naughty" and playful in her childhood and so, after her widow mother found a second husband, she entrusted the girl's education to a Catholic school ruled by nuns. Leblanc was expelled from the school four times, and every time that happened her grandmother bribed the nuns with big donations, so young Libertad was always readmitted. Passionate about
acting since childhood, she used to take part in school plays as
María de los Remedios de Escalada and the
Virgin Mary. In those years, she threw an inkwell against a nun's neck and the latter had to be hospitalized due to intense bleeding. She married movie producer Leonardo Barujel; her father-in-law adored her and had a lovely family home set up in
Córdoba. The latter insisted that while was sweet enough to be Leonardo's wife, his son was not the best choice for a spouse, also telling her: "You should give that crazy one up". In fact, he was so glad with Leblanc as a daughter-in-law that he proposed Libertad the idea of replacing her husband Leonardo with another son of him, hence Leblanc's brother-in-law. Eventually the couple divorced. Libertad was strongly resolute to become an artist against the familiar opposition and her former spouse's wishes, who expected that she would renew their married life after starving and practicing
penance in a convent. However, her popularity aborted that idea: with few money but with brilliant ideas for publicity, she unexpectedly posed in a
bikini on a trampoline at a
Venezuelan hotel while famous movie star
Graciela Borges answered journalists' questions regarding the
Cannes Film Festival; photographers started to capture her and press workers approached to the then unknown starlet, suddenly attracting all the attention. Another publicity stunt created by Leblanc was probably her most successful in Argentina and abroad: for one of her first movies, Libertad had special posters made for every local cinema, stating: "Libertad Leblanc, Isabel Sarli's rival". "I admired Isabel's career because when
the sixties started she had become a living goddess in
American countries and even in
Great Britain", Leblanc would confess decades later. Consequently, film directors and producers contacted and started bankrolling Libertad Leblanc's films, and soon her initial leading roles on screen turned out to be profitable enough to begin her independent life. And, most important of all: Libertad deliberately made it without a manager, and she would always manage her own career. Thus, in her late twenties, the newly acclaimed actress took a stance as a «self-made woman» who did not want to remain subjected to anyone else. Following her marital failure and subsequent divorce with Barujel, and although she kept herself "marriageable", she preferred to have torrid and fleeting affairs with fancy men than a stable marital union. Big-bottomed men were repulsive to her and she always felt attracted by brawny males. In her adult decades, she acquired an apartment in
Madrid as well as another in
Catalonia. Her mental inquisitiveness was one of her distinctive traits. She described herself as an
agnostic and an amateur
gardener, and stated that having a clear conscience was paramount for her. Libertad was shown in a photo with two lines of artificial eyelashes and two wigs off simultaneously, with the result that she appeared on screen as a
transvestite, of which she was deeply proud. She would occasionally get "carried away" by what would be described as a very strong
eleutheromania that made her travel over
Asia and
Europe in her leisure time. She would claim that she lived in accordance with what her first name means (
Libertad meaning "freedom" in Spanish). ==Personal life==