Born Barbara Goldbach to Marjorie and Howard Goldbach on August 27, 1947 in the suburbs of Queens, New York. The eldest of five siblings from a family of mixed European heritages, her mother being an Irish Catholic and her father a Jewish policeman father from Austria and a Romanian grandmother.

Barbara Bach's rise to success began sometime in 1963 at the tender age of sixteen. She dropped her books, her studies and her Catholic school girl uniform to pursue a career in modeling. Shortening her last name to "Bach" from Goldblach, marked the start of her journey to what would eventually become a very successful and fruitful career as a model with the Eileen Ford Agency. In less than a year her career gained immense momentum that captured the attention of both the general public and the industry she now a part of. Soon Barbara Bach was considered and ranked amongst the top, leading American models of her time.

By age 18 Barbara regularly graced almost every other magazine cover in the world.
In 1966 in her home town of New York, she met her soon-to-be first husband, Italian businessman-producer Augusto Gregorino. Two years after they first met, they got married and moved back to Rome, Italy in 1968. Augusto was ten years her senior and Mrs. Barbara Gregorino might have just been in her late teens or could just have just turned twenty.

The couple soon had a daughter named Francesca on August 7, 1969. Francesca would later attend Brown University and is now a song-writer. Again blessed four years after their first born, this time it was a boy. Gianni arrived in 1973.

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