Before the cameras
She grew up on the West Coast and says the woods were her playground. “I grew up in the forest, and always spent a lot of time outside,” she told Penthouse in 2024. Her childhood memories, she says, are almost all outdoor ones.
She was a competitive swimmer in high school and jokes that it was the one sport she was naturally good at because gravity was not involved. She still skis and keeps up pilates. At home she is a self-described big nerd: fantasy and science fiction, Nintendo and The Lord of the Rings while growing up, Skyrim and Apex Legends later, and a collection of Sailor Moon figurines for her office.
She went to college and then worked a run of ordinary jobs: server, barista, babysitter, English tutor, sales associate, personal assistant. Adult work, she has said, felt like a better fit than any of them.