Jamie was born December 6, 1968 in the town of Energy, Illinois, She has one sister, Mary Jo White-McCurdy, who still resides in Southern Illinois and is a community leader. She shares a very tight bond with her sister and father. Jamie took a modeling job in St. Louis, Missouri that led to a career in radio broadcasting. Prior to her career as a radio broadcast personality, Jamie was married to a prominent Denver orthopedic surgeon. Her personal website cites her divorce and her mother's battle with cancer as influential to her on-air personality. Jamie and her sister formed the Nancy White Breast Cancer Fund after their mother's passing to assist in the financial burden of women undergoing treatment.