Stone was born at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Kent, and spent her teenage years in Ashill, a small village in Devon. She is the third of four children born to Richard and Wendy Stoker.Her father owns a fruit and nut import/export business,her mother, who used to manage holiday cottages,worked as Stone's manager until October 2004.Stone made her first public appearance at the Uffculme Comprehensive School which she attended in Uffculme, Devon, with a cover of Jackie Wilson's 1957 song "Reet Petite".Because of her dyslexia, Stone left school at age sixteen with only three GCSE qualifications. "It wasn't that I was stupid. I'm just a little bit dyslexic and I wasn't very academic. I'm more artistic", she says.



