Trivia

Make-up artist, hair stylist, dancer and model.

Engaged to A.J. McLean [January 2010].

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 31, daughter Ava McLean (Ava Jaymes McLean) on November 27, 2012. Child's father is her husband, A.J. McLean.

Is best friends with Lauren Kitt Carter, Nick Carter's wife.

She went to her husband's Into the Millennium Concert in Las Vegas on October 17 1999, but met him in October 2001 at Choreographer's Carnival, where she was a Halloween dancer, before meeting up again at Saddleback Ranch in November 2006 when she was a Hollywood waitress and bartender and "asked her out" but, instead of winning her over right then and there, she flatly rejected him and chose to go have fun with her pals instead until he tried again a year later and eventually started going out in March 22, 2009.

Has a dozen rose-sleeved tattoos on her arms, a star on her right hip, and two hummingbirds below her stomach.

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 35, daughter Lyric Dean McLean on March 19, 2017. Child's father is her husband, A.J. McLean.

Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Her family moved to Santa Clarita, California, when she was 8.

Like her husband, she discovered her love for performing and started to pursue a career in modeling, dancing, and print work.

Growing up in an entertainment family, Rochelle's father and brother knew about AJ before she did, like best pal Leigh Dorough, because they worked on their music videos "Show Me the Meaning Of Being Lonely" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" before that and by the time they started going out, the two began working alongside together: NKOTBSB behind the scenes and "Straight Through My Heart.".

She has two brothers, Perry Jr and Andre, and a younger sister, Priscilla Karidis.

She is of Mexican, Greek, and Italian ancestry.

Was a serious dance student learning everything from jazz to ballet to hip hop since she was two to four and again at 15, like best girl pal Kristin Richardson, beginning to focus on her love for dance and working and training hard to catch up, so her mother signed her up for dance lessons every day for two hours, taking ballet, jazz, hip hop, rhythm hip-hop, contemporary, salsa, merengue, and gymnastics.

She even attended college to please her dad at community college but only dropped out after a semester for six months due to her terrible grades.

Her iconic looks are her red lips and cat eyes.

She and her daughters are never a fan of her husband's/their daddy's shaving his bread/no facial hair.

Despite having many longtime buddies, she was also a victim of bullying since she was 5-6 in 1st grade. She was thick but had a healthy figure, though, body-shamed for her weight, had a crank call of winning lipo and a nose job in 7th grade, which she would never do, and even had her Madonna-style pants ruined in high school.

Based on her professional as a hairstylist and being born a natural blonde like Kristin Richardson and Leighanne Littrell, she used to dye her hair black, brown brunette, or auburn red, but suddenly she had a severe allergy to PPD on August 25, 2013, causing her to switch to extensions, wigs or get highlights instead.

She joined an Overeaters Anonymous 12-step program in January 2021 after still struggling with her self-image, and her husband helped get her a lot of supporters through his Alcoholics Anonymous group.

She tried auditions for talent agencies and dance companies, but the poor thing was too shy, and her brother and sister were getting signed in.

Claimed she got a nose job.

Credited in the liner notes for This is Us (2009) under her maiden name.