Erika Lauren was born in Frankfort, Illinois but moved to Southern California when she was a teenager. She is currently a stand-up comedienne with various credits on television including King of The Hill, Cougar Town and The Daily Show. Before her acting career, she was an actress with an uncredited role in the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (but has since been credited as Merle Ginsberg in the sequel). Her real talent has been her singing abilities, which have been featured on a number of shows including Saturday Night Live, The Late Show With Conan O’Brien and Everybody Loves Raymond.
Height definitely played a role in Erika’s choice of clothing. She sports a rather large butt, which is both a result of her being five feet ten inches tall, and a natural result of her being Hispanic. Her figure is well built, which helps to offset the fact that her face looks sunken in due to the heavy accent she wears. Her Nationality is also a factor in that she is not entirely white — even though her father is white and her mother is Filipino.
Height definitely gave Erika Lauren an advantage when it came to dating. As an actress, she could have potentially dated a lot of different men throughout her career who was much shorter than her, but as an artist and stand-up comic, this was not a possibility. Her advantage as a fan of the size-upturned model image she has capitalized on through stand-up comedy, and by keeping her body slim through exercise, made her a natural fit as a model. Her success as an actress and stand-up comedienne also made her more qualified to play a lesbian in the upcoming adaptation of Russian fairy tales by Peter Kosner; the producers want Laurenain to play the character Rose.