Jasmin Gerat was born in 1978 in Berlin as daughter of an industrial consultant father and an assurance employee. In 1994 she won the "Girl and BoyContest" of the German Magazine "Bravo". As a result she was offered to work for the German TV station "TM3" as presenter of the show "Heart Attack". About a year later she started to present "Bravo TV" on the German TV station "RTL 2" as successor to Heike Makatsch - a job she quit in 1997. From May 1998 on she is working for MTV Germany as a VJ and doing some acting in the movies and on TV.