Background
Acharia was born on July 31, 1987, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her father is a Nepalese gynaecologist who met her mother, a Ukrainian architect, while he was attending medical school in Kyiv. Acharia grew up in Kathmandu, Ukraine, England, and Norway. She spent her first seven years in Nepal, before her father's job took him and his family to England and then, when she was 13, to Norway.