Carly Peeters was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. At a young age, her family moved and eventually settled in Southern California. When moving to California Carly found her love of the arts such as dance and theater. The high school Carly attends is a charter school which allows her to work around her busy schedule. There she has been on the choir team. When Carly isn't at school working with her choir group she has been found riding horses or modeling. Carly is an advocate for Jumpstart that helps instill in children that reading is important. It also got her to create Literally Literacy that goes with that. In May 2017, Carly won Miss Teen California International 2017 in Thousand Oaks, CA. Later that year in August she won Miss Teen International 2017 in Charleston, WV