Acrobat, actress, handstander, trapezist, perchist, Fátima is the daughter of the clown Chocolate  (José de Oliveira, Pernambuco - Campinas, São Paulo, 1945) and the trapezist Judith Alves Correia da Silva from northeast Brazil. She was born and brought up in a circus and belongs to the third generation of artists that originally started with her grandmother Francelina Silva. As children, she and her sisters Raimunda and Delisier started performing acrobatic acts in the Pavilhão Azul, a building owned by Aquiles Pinto in the 1940s. The "Pavilhão" was set up in the corner of the streets Ronaldo de Carvalho and Rodolfo Dantas in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. From twelve to nineteen, Fátima performed aerial acts - aerial hoop, double trapeze and corde lisse - for the Circo Garcia and later in the circuses Robattini, Gomes, Stevanowich, Romano, Águias Humanas and Cosmopolitano (in Africa).