Yes, Monique from BMF is based on Yolanda Yoyo Smith in real life. Yolanda Smith is Big Meech’s first babymama.
On the show, the character is portrayed as a strong single mom determined to give her daughter a better life.
She has been a major part of the show since its first season. The character has been the staple in the life of Demetrius Big Meech Flenory.
It first premiered on September 26, 2021, and now it’s in the second season. Recently it has been renewed for its third season.
It is inspired by the story of two brothers who rose from the streets of southwest Detroit.
BMF is released on the streaming platform Starz where viewers can catch up on the most recent drama and action that follows the characters’ lives in this episode.
Is Monique From BMF A Real Person?
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.”
Did Lamar Kill Monique In Real Life?
Lamar killed Monique in season two episode nine of the show. She was shot right after Lamar proposed to her.
She had planned to kill Lamar in order to escape his rage and the ongoing conflict she was having with Meech and BMF.
However, in real life, Monique passed away in 2004 from an apparent ‘heroin’ overdose.
Monique could feel herself being further sucked in by the ruthless gangster. The drugs he gave got her addicted to them. Lamar ultimately overpowered Monique and killed her.
BMF is just getting started, whereas Monique’s story is over. The show series has previously been renewed for a third season. I
t’s clear from episode 209, “High Treason,” that Meech wants to become the new Meeca for their business in Atlanta.
Doll also reminded her fans on Twitter to be selective of their word and said that Lamar killed the character Monique, not Kash Doll.
Heather Zuhlke, executive producer, will temporarily take over as showrunner while creator Randy Huggins deals with health issues.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the executive producer, has also revealed that Starz is working on three BMF spinoffs. The BMF Universe has been dubbed BMF Immortal by him.
Who Was Yolanda Yoyo Smith BMF To Big Meech?
Yolanda Yoyo Smith BMF is the babymama of Big Meech. She was his assistant when they first knew one another.
Slowly she became their right-hand woman of his and had attracted to each other. They had a daughter together and in the series, they just confirmed it in season 2.
One Reddit discussion shows the original picture of her and her daughter which was a screenshot of a tweet. The photo was pictured in 1990 and was a collage of two pictures.
A Twitter user named Boss posted a picture of Yolanda with the baby she shared with Meech in 1998.
She used to hang out with the 50 Boyz and she watched their backs. A photo of her was shared by Edrick E.D. Boyd on Instagram.
Edrick is the founder of the 50 Boyz. He had a very close relationship with her when she has alive.
He captioned that photo “To my girl who use to hang out with him and 50 boyz and have our back all the time”.
Her other daughter Christiana posted a heartfelt message on her Instagram on the occasion of her mother’s birthday where she wrote that she yearns to see her face again.
Big Meech’s mother Lucille however is active on Facebook. In 2021 she posted a photo of her granddaughter Demetria Jackson Flenory Ford on the day of her wedding.