Celina Jaitly was born on November 24, 1981, in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, to Colonel V.K. Jaitly, a retired Indian Army officer, and Meeta, an Afghan Hindu who worked as a child psychologist and was a former beauty queen. Due to her father's military career, Celina experienced a peripatetic childhood, attending various schools across India. She earned a degree in Commerce with Accountancy (Honours) from Indira Gandhi National Open University. In 2011, Celina married Austrian entrepreneur and hotelier Peter Haag. The couple welcomed twin boys in March 2012 and another set of twin boys in 2017, though one of the latter passed away due to a heart defect. The family resides between Austria, Singapore, and Dubai.