Remini was born June 15, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York City, to George Remini, who owned an asbestos removal company, and his wife, Vicki Marshall, a schoolteacher [REF].
She was baptized Roman Catholic and raised in the Catholic tradition during her early childhood;[REF] when she was nine years old, her mother joined the Church of Scientology, and Remini was thereafter raised as a Scientologist [REF].