It is unknown how old she was at the time, but when she was a child her father went crazy, and moved the entire family to the Outback, and she basically raised in a survivalist compound. When she was 19, she moved to Chicago, where she studied at Northwestern University. Fresh out of Nortwestern, she was an aspiring journalist and managed to land a job as junior personal assistant to Christine Davison, the icy-fashion designer and owner of the fashion house.