 Charmaine Margaret Dragun was born in Perth, Western Australia to Estelle and Michael Dragun.According to her mother, Dragun was a perfectionist and developed anorexia while she was attending university at the WA Academy of Performing Arts and continued to have problems related to anorexia periodically for the next several years.When she was 18 years old, she saw a psychiatrist to address the eating disorder and was also diagnosed with depression and started on a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), that she continued taking for several years.