She is the Pirate Empress, the current Empress of the Amazon Lily Kingdom, an all-female pirate nation located on the island of Kuja, and also the current captain of the all-female Kuja Pirates. Her extraordinary beauty was dubbed the "World's Most Beautiful Woman". She was once a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, serving the government. After the Warlords system was abolished, she was pursued by the Navy. After the World Conference, she is hunted by the Navy as her status shifted from Warlord to pirate, with a bounty of 1.659 billion Berries. She was saved from the Navy by her boyfriend.As a child, she and her two sisters were kidnapped by the World Nobles and suffered all kinds of torture. She and her sisters escaped from Mary Geoise during a mass breakout instigated by Fisher Tiger. She later formed the Kuja Pirates, became its captain.She ate Mero Mero no Mi(the Devil Fruit), which gives her the ability to turn both living and non-living things into stone.Although she was eventually rescued, she panics and shivers whenever she recalls being enslaved by the World Nobles.