Vidosava Kovačević was born in 1889 in Belgrade. Her parents were Serbian historian and politician Ljubomir Kovačević and his wife Draginja Draga. They had six children. Son Vladeta, who died in the Battle of Kumanovo in 1912, and five daughters, one of whom was Milica Rakić, the wife of the poet Milan Rakić, who was then consul in Priština. All their children were baptized by Stojan Novaković, the president of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences and a well known Serbian intellectual.