• Alicia McDonald was born to Thornton McDonald and Alice McDonald on August 19, 1977 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Alice, Alicia's mother, and Thornton, her father, later divorced and Alice married a man named Johnney Duke who, as rumors state, sexually abused Alicia, Alice then divorced Johnney Duke and later on married a man named Donald Smith.

Alicia has one sibling named Shane McDonald.

She married her first husband, Jonathan Nelson, in 1984 and had four children with him. They divorced in 2000, and a year later married a man named Richard Chambers, whom she had their only child.

Her children (from oldest to youngest) are Justin, Jeremy, Adrienne, and Amelia Nelson. She also had a fifth child with her second husband, Richard Chambers, named Brendan