Erica Mena

“I think us as women, naturally, we give more than what we get.”

“I worked hard all these years with my career to finally be on 'Love & Hip Hop' and I never got a chance to show the audience a side of me that isn't always surrounded with drama.”

“I can't specify this enough: when cameras go on, everybody wanna be big and tough. You're not like that in real life.”

“You definitely get different stereotypes and I've worked so hard, especially in the beginning, proving not that I was just more than a video girl but that you can do more than people expect you can and carry yourself a certain way and have some type of integrity or credibility.”

“DJ Envy's definitely talk about me, but I'm one of many. I was under the assumption that he had kids but wasn't actually married. I found out around the time that I started filming 'Love & Hip Hop.' After I found out, I was still in shock because we were together for so long.”

“Yeah, I've been in booty magazines and did music videos but guess what? I can be on Nickelodeon too if I want to!”

“At the end of the day, life and the way things are nowadays, you have to mentally prepare your kids. Whether I'm with a woman or not, walking down the street with my son, he's going to see a man and a man holding hands, so eventually I have to give him that conversation.”

“You can't ever move on without the proper closure.”

“I'm such a true Puerto Rican.”

“I feel like I am built for this world and I've always been a very open person.”

“The world isn't done watching Erica Mena on TV and I know that.”

“At 26 years old, I own a house in Florida.”

“I'm not afraid of love.”

“A lot of girls are open and willing to do whatever for whatever and don't realize that you do have control over your image and how you come across, and if you don't speak on it you will get taken advantage of and that's what they'll assume you're down to do.”

“As a mom, I want to be that mother that steers her children to be whatever they want to be, but also lets them know that the world will never give them anything.”

“I'm just pro-saving what's mine and keeping it away from the world.”

“Me and my family had our fair share of troubles.”

“I'm bisexual.”

“My husband has taught me to take a deep breath and chill and enjoy things.”

“I'm definitely that crazy, sexy cool girl.”