Erica Mena

Background

Erica Mena is an urban model, video vixen, and singer. She was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Sonia Mena, her Puerto Rican mother, and Brian Mena, her Dominican father. She has a son, King Javien Conde, born March 1, 2007, with her ex-boyfriend, Raul Conde, who is a member of Terror Squad with Fat Joe and Remy Ma. In 2009, she appeared as a troublemaking Dash employee on the E! reality show “Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami.”

She first gained notoriety as a model and video vixen, through her appearances in various hip-hop music videos, for artists such as Chris Brown, Fabolous, Akon, and Fat Joe. She became known to a larger audience through her reality television appearances in shows such as “Love & Hip Hop: New York,” the original installment of the “Love & Hip Hop” franchise. She has also embarked on a career as an author, releasing the autobiographies “Chronicles of a Confirmed Bachelorette” and “Underneath It All.” In August 2017, it was announced that Mena would compete in the first season of V.H.1’s “Scared Famous,” which premiered on October 23, 2017. In 2018, Erica joined the “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” cast for the seventh season. In 2019, she returned to “Love & Hip Hop: New York” for its 10th anniversary season.

She joined the cast of “Love & Hip Hop: New York” as a supporting cast member in season two as a rival of Kimbella’s, which stems from their days competing for modeling jobs, and the two get into a violent altercation in her first episode. The fight, in which champagne glasses were thrown, causing both to bleed, would lead to more robust security measures for all “Love & Hip Hop” shows, including hiring personal bodyguards for the cast and enforcing a total ban on glass and metal silverware on set.