- After quitting acting, got a degree in nursing and worked in Oslo as a nurse.
- Was Miss Norway in 1962 and competed in a Miss Universe pageant.
- To date, the only Norwegian Bond girl (in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)).
- Married and divorced twice by 1970; first married to Alf Kruger-Monsen, a Norwegian Army officer who was 12 years older than she was and then married to Erland Skatten, an English dentist who was 15 years older than she was.
- Was successfully treated for breast cancer in 1986.
- Given the title "The New Sex Symbol of the 1970s" by Sir James Carreras, the studio head of Hammer Films. Hammer featured her as a not-so-glamorous cavewoman in its film Creatures the World Forgot (1971). The film was a flop, but Ege went on a round-the-world publicity tour and became a leading pin-up model.
- A former Penthouse Pet of the Month (May 1967).
- Has one daughter, Joanna Kruger-Monsen (b.1969), who lives in Shanghai, China.
- The BBC made a special with her on The Money Programme (1966) to see how much money was invested in making her a star.
- Lived for six years in the 1970s with Tony Bramwell, a former assistant to The Beatles and later a successful record and film music promoter. Their next door neighbor was Brian May, a member of the rock group Queen.
- Was honored with a film festival in 1995 at the Rockefeller Cinema in Oslo.
- Pronounced her last name "eg-gay", not "edge". However, the British media, during her London years, always called her "Julie Edge", perhaps because her co-star in her first major British film, comedian Marty Feldman, nicknamed her "The Naked Edge".
- It was revealed in a Norwegian magazine in October 2002 that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing treatment for it.
- Lived with Norwegian novelist Anders Bye, who was born in Oslo in 1933.
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