 She is niece to Colin Moynihan, the current Baron Moynihan and former head of the British Olympic Association.She was reared by her grandmother in York, England during her childhood years and later moved to the Philippines to accompany her father who became a close friend of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and a successful food critique and restaurant owner in Manila in the 1980s.She is the mother of actress Lexi Fernandez, who is currently a GMA Network contract artist.