Father comes from old money, Mother is new money, started a fortune 500 company with her family. Grew up spoiled, her grandmother got her into beauty pageants which lead to a commercial deal then a recurring role on a children's television series...
Fast forward fifteen years or so, one minor success leads to another and she's worked her way up to B+ celebrity, fashion lines, music deals, TV movies. Also drinking, partying, and rehab....
For a while it worked out, she loved the fame and the masses adored her. Her family would get her out of trouble (usually, sometimes she managed to get herself out through seedy means). But her parents grew tired of their child 'acting out' and when she drunkenly crashed into a secondhand book store on her nineteenth birthday, they refused to bail her out yet again.
At least that's what it seemed like, in reality they quietly got the sentence reduced and as part of her plea bargain, she had to go to college, ending up exiled across the country and the only she has to pass the time is trying to figure out the book she found in the ruin hunk of her convertible.
Also she's chosen psychology as a major, figuring if nothing else it might give her a bit of an edge in her acting career.