"When I was little, the books I read were mostly about fairy tales, but I was living in a nightmare. We all have a story and I'm inviting you to learn about my journey through the eyes of Bell." The first in the 7 series collection, Introducing Southern Bell, follows 7-- year-- old Bell on a typical day at school and opens with Bell sitting on a window ledge watching children play while their mothers sit by. Bell often wondered why her mother never played with her or her brother or did the things other mothers did. Instead her brother Deonte did everything for Bell from cooking, washing her clothes, combing her hair, taking her to school, and signing school notes, since their mom was always either 'sick' or just not around. Fans of VH1's Love & Hip-- Hop Atlanta may immediately make the
connection between Bell and Erica. While Erica's Love & Hip-- Hop Atlanta storyline is fairly well-- known, her journey to the small screen is actually the "real" in reality Born from humble beginnings in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest girl of nine siblings, Erica like Bell, didn't have a stable childhood."