'Jailbirds' Megan "Monster" Hawkins: Where Is She Now?

Fans who've binged via Netflix's 'Jailbirds' are wondering about Monster. What's her real identify and where is she lately?

If you want a Netflix show to tide you over until Orange Is the New Black comes back on, we expect Jailbirds, the truth docuseries that follows real-life female inmates at the Sacramento County Jail, would possibly fulfill a equivalent craving.

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Among the riveting solid of characters who make this fact sequence so attractive is Monster (genuine identify: Megan Hawkins), who you'll in an instant acknowledge from her face tats and break up tongue. 

Here's the whole thing you need to know about Megan "Monster" Hawkins.

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What did Monster do?

Monster is one of the most first inmates we meet at the Netflix docu-series. She's highest friends with Najla "Noonie" Jones, 27, and has a funny conversation with Shawn where she turns down "nunus" and "nanas" aka the drugs she's providing.

"Everyone says that I'm a monster, but looks can be deceiving," Monster, 28, says by means of introduction. Monster, who has virtually half her frame lined in tattoos, explains she has her "good, innocent side and then my monster side."

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Monster is from the East Coast. "I grew up over there, I was living in the East Coast, I was happy," she says. "I had my own place, I was running a business on Fifth Avenue," explained Monster, who was a tattoo artist before she ended up behind bars.  

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On the aspect, she bought medicine. "I got locked up on the East Coast, I did three months over there and then once I got released, I came over here," she continues, regarding California. "My charges were originally possession of a stolen vehicle (GTA), transportations of narcotics (13 pounds of weed, 65 grams of meth), fictitious checks and catching felonies while out on bail."

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Monster was once launched from jail and spoke about her time on Jailbirds.

"It took me getting locked up to like, look at my life and be like, 'OK you're f--king up, what are you doing that's gotten you here?' 'Cause, what's the real reason I'm in here? You know, How am I treating people?" she admits to a manufacturer in an early one-on-one interview.

And now that she's served her one hundred eighty days at the back of bars, and is out in international, Monster says she's thankful to Jailbirds "for wanting to talk to me because it's helped change my life." 

In an interview with CBS, the tatted blonde published that the show is as real as may also be — with no trick-editing and nothing being performed up for the cameras. "It's better than, like, the reality TV of the Kardashians," she joked.

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"You're caged like an animal," she defined. "It's really what it is." But Monster understands why audiences are so riveted via life in the back of bars. "Society likes excitement, the good and the bad," she says.

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As for purchasing the inmates to conform to be featured on the Netflix docuseries, Monster explains it wasn't too hard. Initially, "I was like absolutely not," she recalls, however "they just had to talk to me for like five minutes" and her mind was once modified. 

"You like my tattoos? You think I'm pretty? OK!" she mentioned.

Catch up with Monster and the other inmates of Sacramento County Jail when you movement Jailbirds on Netflix these days.

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However, at the moment, Monster is again in the back of bars.

Last Friday, Monster used to be arrested once once more after making an attempt to make use of someone else's ID to open a checking account and being identified from the Netflix show. She controlled to go away the financial institution sooner than officers arrived, but used to be briefly apprehended nearby.  

When police caught her, they made up our minds that the vehicle she drove to the bank was stolen as well. Upon looking her automotive, police also found a number of bank cards belonging to other people, as well as a managed substance. Uh oh. 

Monster opened up to CBS Sacramento about her fears. 

"Because I'm on the Netflix documentary, I feel like it's the perfect opportunity for them to like, really slap the book at me," she stated. "That's, like, what I'm nervous about."

Catch up with Monster and the other inmates of Sacramento County Jail when you flow Jailbirds on Netflix lately.

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