Selena Miranda

Selena Miranda was born and raised in Juarez, Mexico.  It was not a pleasant childhood; she used to have a few brothers as a child, but one by one they, like her father, left her life, either through joining the warring cartels or through dying in the streets.  Sometimes both were the case.  Her mother, tired of losing her children, and fearful for the fate of her thirteen-year-old daughter, smuggled her child into El Paso, begging for anyone to take her in.  A kind couple with a husband in social work took the young Selena into their home.

She never saw her mother again.

In the United States, Selenas' life was not too bad.  She was a friendly child and while her accent was always going to be thick, she managed to make friends.  Her foster parents were kind, but elderly, and had their hands full with another teenager, the far more troublesome and rebellious April Soung.  They were thankful that Selena was able to calm the troubled girl down and even act like an older sister for her.

Selena was never adopted; she was too old and considered not that bright.  However, she was under the Dream Act and was able to go to school.  She graduated high-school and enrolled in the local community college for beauty, something her foster-mother and April encouraged.  However, she was young and fell in love with one of her teachers, a nice older gentleman who did, in fact, marry her and introduced her to the world of modeling at the tender age of eighteen.

Her life got a bit difficult; she became engrossed in the world.  She lost more weight to get more photo shoots, got addicted to cocaine and other drugs in order to keep the weight off while also going to after parties filled with more drugs and alcohol.  She had divorced and remarried multiple times, as well as being forced to her use her body to keep up her lifestyle.  It became too much for her; even though she was pretending to play the part of the worldly model, she was still the soft sweet girl she had always been.

One day, she was hospitalized after an overdose and while in the hospital, dangerously underweight, she was encouraged to eat and get help for her anorexia, drug and now sex addiction.  While getting that help, she was divorced again by her latest music artist husband and left to fend for herself.  The police officer who got her to the hospital, Darrion Dante, offered to find her a job and a place to stay.

Even if it meant becoming a bartender, then the manager of a bar that owned by a certain Mafia Queen.  Rogue Red was her new home and a new career.  The work was steady and though she had seen a few unsavory things, she felt protected.  No one would mess with her while she worked at the Rogue Red bar.  It was also at the bar that she met the love of her life, Eliot Levesque, who was on a business trip at the time.  One for a whirlwind romance, she and him became very close and now have a relatively stable and good life together.