Neslyn Eugenie Watson was born in Elderslie, St Elizabeth, to Norman Watson and Linnett Barrett. She, who has 15 siblings from both sides of her family, attended school at Elderslie and Retirement. For a while she worked as a civil servant in the.
What was supposed to be a one-off family project at the turn of the 1990s metamorphosed into what is today Boss Furniture, a small group of companies engaged in the manufacture of beddings, sofas .