Charlene Gadient was born in 1985, in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the second oldest of six children. She was raised and home-schooled in a two-story farmhouse in Dade County, Missouri. She moved to Springfield, Missouri, when she was seventeen, where she met Ray, the love of her life. They were joined in holy matrimony and continue to live happily together with their three children not far from her childhood home.
