Silvers was born on November 3, 1997, and was raised in Los Angeles, California, the fifth of six children of a psychiatrist father and an architect mother. Her mother is Swiss, her father is Jewish. She has three older brothers, one older sister, and her younger sister Ray Silvers is a singer. Silvers attended New York University, first for acting, but moved her major to history with a minor in film. She dropped out during her junior (third) year in late 2017 after her father's house burned down in the California wildfires.