In 2013, she and her step-brothers appeared in a music video, to raise awareness about gun violence after Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.[2][3] She graduated in 2017 from Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, New York,[3] where she met Brian Christopher Laundrie.[4] From September 2017 to January 2019, she lived in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and worked as a hostess and in the kitchen of a restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina.