Fernandez was conceived on 11 August 1985,[5] in Manama, Bahrain,[6][7][8] and was brought up in a multi-ethnic family. Her dad, Elroy Fernandez, is a Sri Lankan Burgher, and her mom, Kim, is of Malaysian descent.[9] Her maternal granddad is Canadian. Her dad, who was a performer in Sri Lanka, moved to Bahrain during the 1980s to escape common distress between the Tamils and Sinhalese and therefore met her mom who was an air lady. She is the most youthful of four kids with one senior sister and two senior brothers.[10][8] She facilitated TV programs in Bahrain at the period of fourteen.[7] After getting her initial instruction in Bahrain, she sought after a degree in mass correspondence from the University of Sydney in Australia.[11][12] After graduating she functioned as a TV journalist in Sri Lanka.[7] She additionally went to the Berlitz school of dialects, where she learned Spanish and improved her French and Arabic.[13]
As indicated by Fernandez, she had sought to turn into an entertainer at a youthful age and fantasized about turning into a Hollywood motion picture star.[14] She got some preparation at the John School of Acting.[13] Although, she was a TV columnist, she acknowledged ideas in the displaying business, which came because of her event achievement. In 2006, she has delegated the champ of the Miss Universe Sri Lanka exhibition and spoke to Sri Lanka at the world Miss Universe 2006 expo held in Los Angeles.[15] In a 2015 meeting, Fernandez portrayed the demonstrating business as "a great preparing ground" and stated: "It is a medium that is tied in with shedding your hindrances, knowing your body, confidence".[16] In 2006, she showed up in a music video for the tune "O Sathi" by music couple Bathiya and Santhush.[17]