Articles/Monica Rollins Interview

This is PopTV's Celebrity Chat. I'm, - and I'm here with celebrity hair stylist, Monica Rollins and she'll be talking about her thriving hair salon, her new hair care line, and her hectic life as a stylist and mother!

Reporter: Hello, Monica Monica: Hi, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Great.

Reporter: What inspired you to became a hair stylist? Monica: Well, to tell you the truth, when I was a kid, I never thought about being a hair stylist. At around seven years old, I really didn't what I wanted to do when I grow up. But after I lost my mother when I was 14, I was adopted by my aunt, who was a hairdresser at the time, along with my sisters. And, she gaves us chores at the salon where she worked at the time. My sisters hated working at the salon, but when I learned the process of hair styling and hair care, I fell in love with it. I even went to beauty college after high school for 14 months before I started working at the salon again. Reporter: So, you owe your start as a hair stylist to your aunt? Monica: Yes, I do. Reporter: Before you were this big hair stylist extraordinaire, you were a hairdresser-slash-housewife?" Monica: Yeah, I met my late husband in high school before I went to beauty college and we got married, which was the happiest day of my life. Reporter: You have three kids? Monica: Yeah, three beautiful girls; Eva, she's the oldest, Dominique, she's the middle girl, and Tanzie, she's the baby. Tanzie loves fashion, she wanted to become a fashion designer, while Dominique wanted to be a rock musician, and Eva, she loves to write and wanted to be a author. But, I told my girls, you can do whatever you want and be whoever you want, as long as you go to college, you may never know when you'll have a back-up career. Reporter: Who's in college now? Monica: Eva and Dominique, they are both majoring in cosmetology. Yeah, they are following my footsteps in going into the beauty business. This summer, Eva started taking make-up techniques class. She was having such a great time and for the first time, she was happy. And I haven't seen her so happy about school in a long time. Reporter: What about Dominique? Monica: Dominique likes cosmetology, she's a really good hair stylist and a really good make-up artist. Obiviously, it's an heiriarty trait.