Christien Neser is a speech therapist with an honours degree in French and a master's degree in applied linguistics, to name some of her qualifications. Christien and her husband, Thys, were married in Paris, France, but currently live in Bryanston. They have three children: Louise, Michael and Chris. Christien adores her husband and kids, and has a passion for languages, writing, reading, British humour, French movies, sudoku, the family's naughty Jack Russell, holidays in faraway places, friends, hiking, skiing and mountain-biking.