Shelly Miller was born in Owensboro, KY. She graduated from Murray State University with a Bachelor of Science in Speech Communication and is a certified Master Gardener. After college, she worked as a press aide for a United States Senator in Washington, D.C. before marrying her husband and settling in Madison, Alabama. Together, she and her husband raised three girls in the South. She taught aerobics and pregnancy exercise classes throughout the community and even completed a half-marathon. Yes, you read it correctly, "half." She considers that to be good enough. She then homeschooled her ch...