Kim DeLonghi, maiden name Kimberly Marlene Backman, was born in Pickering, Ontario and then was raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada in a middle-class family household. In 1982, her family moved just outside Toronto, Ontario Canada to Thornhill where she spent most of her upbringing before going off to university in Ottawa, Ontario studying English Literature. Her mother, Marlene Backman, worked in the banking industry, and whose family is originally from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. Her father, now retired, worked in the commercial building field and then owned his own Hardwood flooring company. Kim met her husband in 1991 and married in 1997.