Michaela was born and bred in Hawke's Bay. After a year at Otago University she trained as a medic in the New Zealand Air Force from 2019 to 2024.
You can take the girl out of the bay but you can never take the bay out of the girl, she returned to her home town to commence work at the Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter as a Crewman/EMT in April 2024.