With her siblings, Owens was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, by her grandparents from around the age of 11 or 12, after her parents divorced. She is the third of four children.[20][21] She said her paternal grandfather Robert Owens, a Black American, was born in North Carolina.[21]
Owens is also of Caribbean American heritage through her
grandmother who is originally from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.[22] She is a graduate of Stamford High School.[23]
