Ruah was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of Dr. Moisés Carlos Bentes Ruah and his former wife Catarina Lia Azancot Korn. She has a distinguishable birthmark in her right eye, and her other eye is hazel, giving her eyes a unique appearance as one is brown/blackish and the other is hazel.
Her father was a resident in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat) in the Boston University-Tufts University Program. When Ruah was five years old, her father completed his Residency, and the family returned to Portugal, where her parents divorced and she spent the rest of her childhood.[citation needed] Her father is of Sephardic Portuguese Jewish descent. Ruah's mother is the daughter of a Sephardi mother, who was born in Portugal, and an Ashkenazi father, who was born (1922) in what is now Wrocław, Poland, she also had a Spanish grandmother.[citation needed]
Her father was a resident in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat) in the Boston University-Tufts University Program. When Ruah was five years old, her father completed his Residency, and the family returned to Portugal, where her parents divorced and she spent the rest of her childhood.[citation needed] Her father is of Sephardic Portuguese Jewish descent. Ruah's mother is the daughter of a Sephardi mother, who was born in Portugal, and an Ashkenazi father, who was born (1922) in what is now Wrocław, Poland, she also had a Spanish grandmother.[citation needed]