Born in Pasadena, California on July 17, 1988, to an American mother and a father of East Indian ancestry. Summer is the youngest of three siblings. Summer and her family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was three. A year later, the family relocated back to the Pasadena area for a short time, awaiting the transfer of her father to the small Island Kingdom of Bahrain. There Summer and her brother attended the British school of Bahrain for three years before transferring to the Bahrain School, which is the only US Department of Defense School in the Middle East. Summer returned to Southern California with her mother and brother just shy of her fourteen birthday. In love with the idea of becoming an actress since the age of five, Summer took her first acting class at 14. Nine months later, a manager and agency signed her.