Michelle Wu was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 14, 1985. She is an American citizen who is of mixed Asian and Taiwanese ancestry. She was born to parents who left Taiwan for the United States. Also, she was the fourth child born, and the oldest. She has three siblings as a result. Mandarin Chinese was her native tongue. In the end, Wu’s parents got divorced. Wu started caring for her mother and parenting her two youngest siblings while she was in her early twenties because of her mother’s serious mental condition. She is a follower of Christianity and has Capricorn as her zodiac sign. Also, she will be 36 years old as of 2021. She has never given the media the identities of her parents or siblings.
Regarding Michelle’s education, she was valedictorian at Barrington High School when she graduated in 2003. She was chosen as an Illinois-based U.S. Presidential Scholar in 2003. Wu served as the National Junior Classical League’s president for the 2002–2003 academic year. Later, she relocated to the Boston area and enrolled at Harvard University, where she studied economics with a focus and received her degree in 2007. Wu also completed Emerge Massachusetts, a rigorous training course for female candidates for elected office, in 2010. She later earned her law degree from Harvard in 2012.
