[2] Fargus was born in Hong Kong to a Scottish father and Australian mother and therefore holds dual British-Australian citizenship.

[3] In 2002, she enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC) on a full athletic scholarship and until 2006 competed and worked as a volunteer coach in the United States.

She was voted USC Woman of the Year 2005 and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in communication.

All those years she represented England and Great Britain at international competitions,[2] after which she transferred her sporting allegiance to swim for Australia.

[5] Around March 2008 she retired from swimming and moved back to Hong Kong, where she first worked as an account executive at PPR Greater China and then as media relations manager at HSBC.