Jurić spent her earliest years in the village of Donji Vaganac, in the Lika region of what was then SR Croatia in SFR Yugoslavia. At the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, she was sent to live in Serbia with other members of her family. Her mother and father were expelled from their village as a result of Operation Storm in 1995 and arrived to Serbia as refugees. Jurić discussed her family's experiences in the war at the 2019 commemoration of the Serb victims of Operation Storm.