Saenz was born in Fall River, Massachusetts was born as Kimberly Fowler. Kim attended Central ISD in Pollok, Texas (suburb of Lufkin Texas) for at least her junior high and high and high school years. She was a cheerleader in junior high and part of high school. Her junior year of high school, she learned she was pregnant by her high school boy friend and gave birth to her son her junior year of high school. This ended Kim’s high school career as she left Central High School after the birth of her son. Kimberly eventually earned her high school diploma or equivalency of and went to Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas and earned her licensed vocational nursing license. She was hired as a nurse at a DaVita dialysis clinic. She was hired despite a checkered employment history: at the time, she had been fired at least four times from healthcare jobs. One such firing came when her bosses at Woodland Heights Hospital caught her stealing Demerol (which was found in her handbag) and cheating on a urine test.
