Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos an haife ta a ranar 17 ga Yuni shekara1962 a Mangualde, Portugal. Lokacin da aka kira mahaifinta don yin yaƙi a cikin Sojojin Fotigal, dangin sun ƙaura zuwa Mozambique . Iyayenta sun sake aure kuma, a cikin shekara1968, Vanda ta koma tare da mahaifiyarta da sabon ubanta zuwa Brussels, Belgium, inda aka haifi 'yar'uwarta,' yar wasan kwaikwayo Helena Noguerra . A cikin ƙuruciyarta ta ƙuduri niyyar zama mawaƙa, kuma mawaƙa-mawaƙa Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), abokiyar iyali. Ta ɗauki sunanta na mataki, Lio, daga hali a cikin littafin barbarella mai ban dariya na Jean-Claude Forest . [1][permanent dead link] "69 minutes sans chichis: Lio", interview in French by Leslie Meuraillon, published in march 2015 on the belgian website Moustique.be (Belgian). [The official autobiography of the belgian artist co-written with the journalist Gilles Verlant Pop model, Éditions J'ai Lu, page 290. Note: the letter W was not used by the Portuguese administration at the time of the birth of the artist.