 When she was two and a half years old, she and her parents immigrated to the U.S. as refugees, settling in West Hollywood.She started acting in Mattel Barbie commercials at the age of five, due in part to her family's financial problems.Vayntrub briefly attended Beverly Hills High School, but dropped out after her sophomore year, got a GED, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from University of California, San Diego.