Iwa Moto or Aileen Quimapo Iwamoto in real life was born on 29 August 1988 in Las Pinas City, Philippines. She is half-japanese half-Filipino. His father is a Japanese, and her mother is a Filipina.
She grew up and studied in the Davao provinces of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley southern area in Southern Philippines where her mother was based.