The “Think Like a Man” star was born to Theresa Union, a former dancer and social worker, and Sylvester Union, a retired phone company manager in Omaha, Nebraska. The Unions are big on country music and football. In an interview with Us Weekly, the actress shared, “I love a good tailgate. My husband [Dwyane Wade] and I have started a tradition of going to the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ home opener every year.”

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In 2012, following the death of Trayvon Martin, the actress became very vocal. She even supported a petition that called for Florida District Attorney Norman Wolfinger to bring charges against the 17-year-old boy’s accused killer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was acquitted of charges in Martin's death in July 2013.

While talking to Basketball Insiders, Union boldly admitted she realized she wanted an actress “When I made money.” She added, “It wasn’t for the love of it initially; it seemed like a great way to delay adulthood for a while. I started while I was still in college.”

She continued, “I kind of always looked at it like, ‘Well, I could always go to law school.’ That was my plan back then. But I was making $6.60 as the book buy back supervisor at UCLA, so I thought, ‘Let’s see if I can make more than that!’ And pretty quickly, I was like, ‘Ah, I can make a living doing this.’ So I never looked back."