 Christianne Meneses Jacobs was born in Managua, Nicaragua.Meneses' family included her brother Enrique, mother Thelma, who was a legal secretary, and father, Enrique Meneses, who was a lawyer and vice president of the National Liberal Party, who had been jailed more than once in Nicaragua for political reasons.Her grandfather was Dr. Ildefonso Palma Martinez, who was a lawyer, law professor, and a justice of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court.