Valerie was born on 14, November 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara T. Bowman, during the regime of the Shah.
She is 63 years old by 2023.
Valerie’s father, a pathologist, and geneticist worked in a hospital in Shiraz in 1956. When Valerie was five, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.
