Publish date: 2024-01-21

Yes, Monique from BMF is a real person based on Yolanda Smith. Yolanda passed in 2004 at a very young age.

The series shows her love life is complicated as she is in love with Meech and Lamar. 

Her story starts when she meets Lamar who she hasn't seen for two years when released from jail comes to meet her and his daughter.

The character portrays a paralegal and a mother who never backed down from standing her ground. 

In the movie, she had a love triangle with Lamar and Meech. She gets closer to her ex-lover and distances herself from Meech.

When Meech shows up at her house unexpectedly a scene shows the confrontation between him and Lamar.

But after some episodes, it is shown that Lamar asking for another chance to be with her but she refuses to let him in.

After that, they became distant from each other and had a huge fight which caused her to bleed and bruise.

In the series, she was also killed by Lamar because of their issues.

In real life, the person on which the character is based was a woman from Detroit. She was a bossy woman outside her love life.

Kash Doll Played The Character Of Monique

Akreisha Antoinette Knight who goes by the stage name of Kash Doll portrayed the character of Monique on the show.

She had a recurring role on the show till season 2. Fans were thrilled when they learned that she would be doing the role of Monique.

The role was of the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Meech. The role she played also had a love complication as she was also in a relationship with Lamar.

She still had respect from both men that she was dealing with.

After season 2, she reflected on the character's fate and her two seasons on the show through an Instagram post.

She wrote a caption that said "Y’all my girl Monique gone…. She put up a fight though if it helps (bc I see y’all upset) the lady I was portraying really passed away in real life and she did have one of Big Meech's daughters… I and the real Zoey talk all the time and she put me up on the game."

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