Behboudi was born in Tehran during the Iran and Iraq war. All her childhood was spent under the influence of war and its damage, which has become her most important concern in photography. Behboudi, after her childhood spent in a region torn apart by war and conflict, asks through her art why victims of the war could never be the same person again or return to any kind of normalcy. This eerie hypothesis, combined with the death of her best friend prompted her to begin photography.