Jodie was a showjumper as a child and attended St Michael's School, Petworth.
Family
Jodie is the granddaughter from Hon. Janet Gladys Aitken's (1908-1988) third marriage (1942) to Major Thomas Dealtry Kidd.
Jodie's mother, Wendy Madeleine Kidd (née Hodge), is the daughter of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet Hodge.
Jodie's father is British businessman and former showjumper John Edward Aitken Kidd, himself a maternal grandson of the first Lord Beaverbrook.
Jodie has an elder sister, Jemma Kidd (b. 1974), who married Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, grandson of the Duke of Wellington, in June 2005.
She has a brother, the Polo player Jack Kidd (b. 1973), who is married and has several children.