Leslie Barbara Carter was born on June 6, 1986 in Tampa, Florida in the family of Robert Gene Carter (aka Robert Carter) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Carter (née Spaulding) and become the third of five their children. Her parents were divorced in 2003 after more than 20 years of marriage. Leslie had an older brother Nick Carter (b. 1980), older sister Bobbie Jean Carter (b. 1982) younger brother and sisters, which are twins, - Aaron Carter and Angel Carter (b. 1987). With her four siblings she participated in the family rally show House of Carters (2006). Also had three half-siblings: a sister Virginia Marie (b. 1972, from her father's first marriage) and a brother Kaden (b. 2005) and a sister Taelyn (from her father's third and current marriage to Ginger Carter).
In September 2008, Leslie married to her longtime boyfriend Mike Ashton, and in April 2011, they gave birth to their only child - a daughter named Alyssa Jane Ashton. She died at age 25 on January 31, 2012 from an accidental prescription drug overdose in the home her father, stepmother and half-brother and sister in Westfield, New York. She was survived by her father, mother, stepmother, seven siblings, husband of almost four years and 10-month-old daughter.
