Saeeda was born (May 21) in Dubai and brought up in New York, United States. She belongs to a Kashmiri Family. Saeeda went to Walt Whitman High School in Long Island, New York and then Stony Brook University and got a degree in Psychology, partially minor as Sociology. She was also the president of Club D.S.A at Stony Brook University for about two years in Long island, New York.
She loves to act, dance, cook, swim, play badminton, shop around, listen to music depending on her mood and admires Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Roxen, 56ix and Jagit Singh.