- The film genre"Ficheras" declined in popularity, forcing May to retire from the stage.
- In 2016, Lyn was featured in the documentary film Beauties of the Night, by the filmmaker María José Cuevas, along with other vedettes like Olga Breeskin, Rossy Mendoza, Wanda Seux and Princesa Yamal.
- Mexican vedette, exotic dancer and actress Lyn May, is of Chinese ancestry.
- She was one of the most popular Mexican vedettes during the 1970s and 1980s, a popular sex symbol, and one of the main stars of Ficheras cinema.
- She appeared frequently as a guest on the Univision television show El Gordo y La Flaca.
- Lilia performed her first nude, causing a furor among the male audience. The businessman Enrique Lombardini, who at that time managed the Teatro Esperanza Iris, bestowed on her the pseudonym "Lyn May: The Goddess of Love." As a vedette, Lyn May included singing in her shows in nightclubs and cabarets.
- She currently works as a Tahitian dance instructor at the Plaza Caribe Hotel in Cancun, Mexico and gives performances on weekends in the bar of the same establishment.
- In 1974, filmmaker Alberto Isaac chose Lyn as one of the main protagonists of the famous film Tívoli, which portrays with nostalgia the nocturnal atmosphere of Mexico City in the 1940s and 1950s. With the success of the film, Lyn became fully incorporated into Mexican Cinema, particularly the genre known as Ficheras film of the 1970s and 1980s.
- In 1991, she participated in the telenovela Yo no creo en los hombres, produced by Televisa.
- She worked at the Tropicana cabaret in Acapulco, where she alternated with the popular Mexican comedian Germán Valdés "Tin Tan". After her successful season with Tin Tan she traveled to Mexico City, where television presenter Raul Velasco hired her as a dancer in the program Siempre en Domingo. There, she joined the program's ballet, headed by the popular vedette Olga Breeskin. On the TV show, Lyn May learned, with a professional instructor, to dance tribal, Hawaiian, and Tahitian dances.
- During the peak of her career, she was involved with important politicians and business leaders. May has said she had an affair with a former President of Mexico, but did not name him.[1] The President is speculated to be José López Portillo, who also had an affair with, and later married actress Sasha Montenegro. May had also a ten-year relationship with film producer Guillermo Calderón.
- In August 2021, the media reported that May got pregnant at 68 years old, the father reportedly is her 29-year old fiancée Marcos D1. She announced the message of her pregnancy on Instagram which caused controversies among tabloid journalists.
- In 1998, May's career resurfaced after participating in the music video of the song Mr. P. Mosh by Mexican rock band Plastilina Mosh.
- In 1970, Lilia was hired by the businessman Enrique Lombardini, who at that time managed the Teatro Esperanza Iris. However, the young dancer was not prepared for the kind of burlesque shows that were taking place in the city theater. According to Lyn May, the first day she stepped on the stage of the Teatro Iris, she was heavily booed by attendees, who, accustomed to the artistic nudes of vedettes like Gloriella and Cleopatra, protested the musical number of the young aspirant to vedette.
- She worked as a waitress in a restaurant where she met her first husband, an American sailor 30 years her senior, with whom she settled in Mexico City. After five years of marriage and the birth of their two daughters, Lilia separated from her husband alleging domestic violence and sexual abuse.
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