Following her retirement from acting in 1981, Zerrin Egeliler has lived a very private life. She has largely stayed out of the spotlight, and there have been conflicting reports about her activities. Some accounts from the mid-1990s suggested she was working as a "konsomatris" (hostess) in a nightclub in Adana.

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