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Dr. Vanessa Youness was born into a family of a Romanian mother, originally from Craiova, and a Palestinian father, originally from Hayfa, near the holy city of Jerusalem.

At the age of three, after graduating from her father's medical school in Craiova, her family moved to Syria, Damascus, the world's oldest capital and the place where her Palestinian grandparents took refuge. Palestine in the 1948 war.

In Damascus, Dr. Vanessa Youness spends her childhood until she is 7 years old. During this time, her father completed his specialization in general surgery, instilling in him and his mother a love of medicine, especially surgery; faculty and specialization that she also attends in her turn.

At the age of 7, due to the fact that she did not speak Romanian as fluently as Arabic, the family decided that she should start primary school in Romania and so she is enrolled in the famous National College "Frații Buzești" in Craiova, following classes 1-6 there.

During this time, her parents' paths parted, leaving her in the custody of her heroine mother, as she is often called to this day in her book.

At the age of 13, life would bring him a new move on the map of life. This time she goes with her mother to a new continent in the kingdom of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait. This kingdom becomes her new adoptive country, where she remains a permanent resident for the next few years until she finishes high school and high school at one of Kuwait's prestigious English private schools, Gulf English School of Kuwait. Within this school she becomes a model student, being chosen as the school's image representative in all the consecutive years of study in all the efforts to promote this private school in all the media.