Jackie Kennedy Onassis was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. She was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York. Jackie was born into a wealthy family. Her father was a New York stockbroker and her mother was an equestrian, or a horse rider. As a child Jackie was very smart and quite mischievous. Jackie took ballet lessons at the Metropolitan Opera House and she started taking French lessons by the age of twelve. She was like her mother in the sense that she loved riding and she was an amazing rider. When she was just eleven years old she won a national junior horsemanship competition in
