- Born
- Birth nameMonica Denise Arnold
- Nicknames
- Mo
- Princess of R&B
- Miss Thang
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Monica Arnold was born October 24, 1980, in Oak Park, Georgia, to Marilyn Best, a church singer and airline customer service representative, and M.C. "Billy" Arnold, Jr., a mechanic. At the age of four, she began singing in her local church choir. After entering many talent shows, Monica was spotted by Dallas Austin, a record producer, who has put albums out for such big named artists,such as TLC. Amazed by her voice, Dallas offered her a record deal,with his Artista-Distributed Rowdy Records label. After her debut album 'Miss Thang' Monica's career began to really start. Her album included smash singles including "Before you walk out of my Life" and "Why I love you so Much." After graduating high school at the age of sixteen with a 4.0 grade average, Monica released her second album 'The Boy is Mine.' Teaming up with another teen icon, Brandy Norwood, the two put together a massive radio hit, "The Boy is Mine." She also put out other hit singles, "Angel of Mine" and "First Night." Her duet with Brandy went on to receive many awards, including Best Video of the Year, and best R&B Song. After her success with the album, she appeared on many television talk shows, Rosie O'Donnell, David Letterman, and also a small stint on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). Not only seen on television, Monica was also noticed on basically every teen magazine, YM, Teen People, Twist and Teen. After accomplishing singing, Monica accomplished another thing, acting. Summer 2000 released her first feature film, Boys and Girls (2000). Later she will have a starring role, opposite Charisma Carpenter in The Twins(2001).
- IMDb mini biography by: bcnu_84@hotmail.com
- SpouseShannon Brown(November 22, 2010 - October 22, 2019) (divorced, 1 child)
- Relatives
- Cousin of rapper Ludacris.
- Wears an arm band around her left arm to cover a tattoo because she doesn't want to encourage young girls to get a tattoo.
- R&B singer.
- (June 13, 1997) Graduated from Atlanta Day Country School at age 16 with a 4.0 GPA, a year ahead of schedule. She skipped ahead by studying year round with a private tutor.
- Is Ciara's god-sister.
- My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.
- [on getting the Jesus tattoo on her arm] My mom said, "You know Jesus, you don't need to look at him every day". But I wanted to look at Him every day because there was a time when I would wake up and I didn't even know why my eyes were even opening. I'm like, "just let me go back to sleep, make the pain go away". I would look at my arms, even when I showered, and I would get this level of strength that I couldn't explain to other people. I wear it proudly at this point now.
- [on the meaning behind her tattoos] I am covered like your average gang member... I am, all over. But you know what, each tattoo represents something that I experienced, that I got through. Everything that you see on me, I can tell you exactly what happened. The reason that the face of Jesus is on my arm, my mom said, "You know Jesus, you don't need to look at him every day!" But I wanted to look at him every day because there was a time when I would wake up and I didn't even know why my eyes were even opening. I'm like, "Just let me go back to sleep, make the pain go away." And I would look at my arms, even when I showered and I would get this level of strength that I couldn't explain to other people. So everything on me, my neck's done. My back's done, entire right leg is done. My arm is done. And uh... I wear it proudly at this point now.
- I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.
- I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.
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