Background
Jessica Elisabeth Andersson was born Jessica Arvidsson in Spånga, Stockholm, on 27 October 1973. At the age of three she moved with her family to Hagfors, and she later lived in Lidköping and Skövde, where she spent her school years. She subsequently lived in Trollhättan, where she worked as a singer in the stage show Svensk Schlager and also worked as a photographic model. Her early life and family background were later described in her autobiographical book När kalla nätter plågar mig med minnen av hur det var, written with Lena Katarina Swanberg.
