Bella spent time growing up between Italy and Poland. Bella is fluent in Italian and Polish in addition to English and Spanish. Ms. Valentine began her international modeling career in 1999 as a runway model in Italy and remained in the runway modeling business for a couple years before moving to the United States in 2001. Still a teenager, Bella stayed in Northern California attending the Kansas City Art Institute. She soon dropped attempting to study for a career as an artist and went to achieve her business degree. Bella spent two years working in business development before leaving the corporate structure and returning to her passion of modeling.