[1] Fairchild was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began her dance training at the age of four, studying with Judy Levitre and Kaelynne Oliphant at Dance Concepts in Sandy, Utah, and at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City with Sharee Lane, Deborah Dobson, and Maureen Laird.
[2] She and her brother are both recipients of the Mae L. Wien Award at the School of American Ballet.
Fairchild made her Broadway stage debut playing the role of Ivy Smith in the 2014 revival of On the Town,[4] which opened on October 16, 2014, at the Lyric Theatre.
[5] George Balanchine August Bournonville Peter Martins Jerome Robbins In 2011, Fairchild married fellow New York City Ballet principal Andrew Veyette,[6] but they quietly divorced in 2017.
[8] From 2014 to 2017, Fairchild was the sister-in-law of fellow dancer Tiler Peck, through her marriage to Megan's brother Robert.