 She attended Ellison Primary School, Wolstanton, and then Wolstanton High School.After school, Bailey attended Stoke-on-Trent College.She obtained a B.Tec National Diploma (Ceramics) and then joined her father's new business, LJB Ceramics, at the Old Ellgreave Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, which produced Toby Jugs and other decorated pottery, where she initially worked as a painter.