Jessica James was born March 8, 1979, in Anchorage, Alaska. Her mother is half Czech and French by birth, and her father is a Seminole who worked as a secret DEA agent and patrolman. From Alaska her family moved to Arizona. Jessica was an excellent student with special talents in fine arts, classical piano and impeccable writing. Jessica dreamed of becoming a teacher. After high school, she went to college, graduating at eighteen. After graduation, she began teaching, working as a substitute teacher. When she turned twenty-one, she decided to have breast augmentation surgery, increasing her bra size from o second to third.