In 2013, she and her step-brothers appeared in a music video, inspired by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, to raise awareness about gun violence.[2] She graduated in 2017 from Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, New York,[2] where she met Brian Christopher Laundrie.[3] 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.[5] She applied to Cape Fear Community College but did not attend.[5]