Born in Colombo, Western Province Fernandez comes from a Sinhalese family in Sri Lanka. Her parents are both Sinhalese, her father from Negombo, who has now migrated to Malaysia, and her mother from Kandy. At the age of three her family moved to Bahrain as a guest worker. In Bahrain, she studied at the Holy Crest Girls' School, Manama. While schooling she participated in many co-curricular activities including ballet, drama and athletics. After graduating from the Murrey University in Melbourne, Australia with a degree for mass media studies, she chose modelling as her profession, providing her service to a number of fashion designers in Australia, Singapore, Dubai and Sri Lanka.
