She met Mohamed Al Fayed on the beach in Alexandria and they married in 1954. The marriage lasted two years, and produced one child, Dodi Fayed. Samira separated from Mohamed Al Fayed just months after Dodi's birth and returned to Saudi Arabia. She then married Saudi Ambassador Anas Yassin and had her second child, Jumana Yassin. Samira was the aunt of actress and producer Nabila Khashoggi and of political journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Her son Dodi was reportedly devoted to her, and would telephone her almost every day up to her death. Dodi once told a friend: "If it meant giving up everything I have—cars, wealth, and women—I would do it to bring my mother back." Her son was dating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a traffic collision in Paris on 31 August 1997.