She has a son, Karl Helgason, with her ex-husband Lief Helgason. He lives with his father and the relations with his mother seem to be complicated. Strangely, Yuri works in the Professional Sports career track as a Snack Hawker, despite being a couch potato, which is detrimental to her career. She has 1 skill point in the Athletic and she needs three more in order to get a promotion, although Yuri would perform much better in the Culinary track. She is best friend forever with her neighbor, the cook Martina Frimann. She dislikes her ex-husband.