Dominique Chenot was born in 1952 in Algeria, and moved to France in 1962 with her family.
After finishing her education, she became a beauty instructor.
She met Henri Chenot in 1980 during a seminar, and then applied herself first to the study of high energy diets, applying this while working on the book "The High Energy Diet".
Dominique Chenot is at present the author of the diet recipes used in the work of the "Espace Henri Chenot and is responsible for quality control in the "Espace".