Michelle grew up in a small town in Missouri with her mother Janice and her father Michael. She had very few friends (if any) from her home town, and rarely talks about her life before college. Her father died suddenly of a brain aneurysm when she was very young. She appears to have inherited her species through her father's side of the family, but it is unclear how exactly that came about. Not much is known about Michelle before her attendance at Southwest Missouri State University. It is implied that she is the only known Grecian sphinx in existence, as the species was supposed to have gone extinct during the Great War.