Shannon was born September 7, , in Houston, Texas. Shannon is a model and a star actress. At the young age of two, she began to learn ballet and tap dancing and loved to sing and show off in any way possible. When Shannon was in the third grade, her family moved to Waco, Texas, where many of her relatives lived. Her parents figured it would be safer to raise their family in a small town instead of the big city. Everyone seemed to make the best of what the small town had to offer.