Pernas moved to the United States when she was five years old and grew up in Orange County, California. Her mother is from Morocco, while her father is from Galicia one of the nationalities of Spain; both are multilingual. As a result, she speaks four languages: Arabic, English, Spanish, German and a bit of Galician-Portuguese. Although she initially planned a career in journalism, she was redirected to a career in modeling and acting after being scouted.[citation needed]
Pernas played Marisa Sierras on The Young and the Restless from 2015 to 2017, and appeared on the telenovela Jane the Virgin from 2016 to 2017. She starred as Hannah Rivera in the NBC series The Brave from 2017 to 2018, and since 2019 has played Lexi Vaziri on the CBS series Blood & Treasure.
Pernas began dating her former The Young and the Restless co-star Justin Hartley in May 2020. They married in March 2021.

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