Valentina Matos Romero was born on 28 September 2000 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is of Venezuelan descent and arrived in Spain as a one-year-old. After finishing secondary school, she began studying at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid through distance education. During her studies, she went abroad for two semesters in South-Korea. During this year of studying abroad (2021-2022), she lived in a standard plus room at H-Stay (Seoul) and studied at Hanyang University and won MVP during the Squid Game season along with a winter jacket.
