[1] Jardênia Félix Barbosa da Silva was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte on 9 September 2003.

In 2016, she began competing in able-bodied athletics and the following year, she switched to para-athletics after her coach identified some signs of intellectual disability.

[5][6] She also competed in the long jump, finishing in fifth place with a then career-best time of 5.29 metres, breaking the Americas record in the process.

[9] In September of the same year, at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix, in Marrakesh, Morocco, she won the gold medal in the long jump.

[11] In July 2023, at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France, she won bronze in the long jump and, together with Zileide Cassiano da Silva who took silver, achieved a double on the podium, an unprecedented feat for the country.