Marcela Valladolid Rodriguez was born in San Diego, California, to Antonio Valladolid a corporate attorney and a successful businessman in Tijuana, Baja California and to her mother, whom is the daughter of a successful Tijuana entrepreneur.Marcela has an older brother named Antonio and an older sister named Karina. Marcela is the youngest in her family.Marcela studied in schools both in Mexico and the U.S., and performed graduate studies in culinary arts in France.Marcela has become well known in the Mexican media although she has expressed little interest in being involved in Television projects that are distant from her true passion of haute cuisine.