Owen attended Howell's School in Llandaff, Cardiff, and graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, in English.

[citation needed] Owen began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Wales as a researcher, later progressing to a reporting and co-presenting role for a features programme.

[1] To Owen's surprise it then came to light that she was following in her late father – Jeff Cohen's – footsteps as he had worked as an occasional freelance newsreader on Wales Today in 1962 whilst establishing his estate agency business.

[4] Owen was one of eight people chosen to participate in a week learning Welsh on a campsite in Pembrokeshire in the series cariad@iaith:love4language, shown on S4C in May 2012.

[citation needed] In 2023, Owen came close to losing her eyesight due to a detached retina, only discovering the problem during a routine eye test.