Mariela Girard aka Mimi Girard was born on December 22, 1982 in Michoacan Mexico. Her mother, Rosa Cortez, was also born in Michoacan Mexico. Mimi was brought to the continental United States during her childhood at 2 years old. Mimi is the middle of three sisters, Jasmin Clopton, a real estate investor, and Mayra Padilla, who is top regional supervisor for T-mobil in Houston TX.
Mimi always admired latin TV novelas and dreamed to be an actress when older. As a child, she enjoyed a variety of musical genres, cumbia, salsa, merengue and bachata, and mainstream music like pop, hip-hop and R&B. At age 14, Mimi began taking modeling and choreography dancing lessons. At school, Mimi participated in dance, and was an athlete playing soccer. At age seventeen, Mimi moved out of her parent's home. Later in time, Mimi worked at an apartment community while she took some local commercial gigs on the side. She continued with commercials, some print model, and voice over gigs...
Later in life she started professional acting classes and participated in many theater plays.