# Mimi Faust
**Mimi Faust** (born Oluremi Faust, 1972) is an American reality television personality and entrepreneur, best known as an original cast member of the VH1 series *Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta*, which premiered in 2012. On the show she appeared as the longtime girlfriend of the Grammy-winning musician and producer [Stevie J](https://www.edgepedia.org/stevie-j), and alongside that career she has run an Atlanta cleaning company, a hair line, and later a skin care business.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) • [2](https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-mimi-faust-of-love-hip-hop-atlanta/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Oluremi "Mimi" Faust; her mother changed her childhood name to the Nigerian-derived Oluremi Fela[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) • [3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) |
| Born | 1972, Newport News, Virginia, USA[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) |
| Signature show | Original cast member of *Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta* (VH1, 2012); the series ran through 13 seasons on BET and Paramount+[2](https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-mimi-faust-of-love-hip-hop-atlanta/) • [4](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/love-and-hip-hop-atlanta/) |
| Business | Owner of Keep It Clean, Inc., an estate and commercial cleaning service in Atlanta[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) |
| Child | Daughter Eva (Eva Jordan, also reported as Eva Giselle) with Stevie J[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) • [5](https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/mimi-faust-carlos-king/) |
| Later ventures | Hair line "The Maya Collection"; skin care line Oluremi, launched after her television run[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) • [6](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/fmc-ip4npxdtf1fwkld5.amp) |
## Early life
Faust was born in [Newport News, Virginia](https://www.edgepedia.org/newport-news-virginia), in 1972.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) She grew up in the [Church of Scientology](https://www.edgepedia.org/church-of-scientology), and has said she was forced out of it after adamantly refusing to work for the religion.[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) Her mother, Olaiya Odufunke, left the family when Faust was 13 years old.[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) She has described being torn away from her mother at that age as the point at which she learned to be self-reliant and enterprising.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/)
At sixteen she was reunited with her biological father, an artist based in upstate New York, and built a relationship with him that lasted until his death on May 8, 2014.[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) In interviews she has said she spent her childhood in Virginia, Atlanta, and Los Angeles before settling in [Cobb County, Georgia](https://www.edgepedia.org/cobb-county-georgia), to raise her daughter.[7](https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/mimi-faust-interview-love-hip-hop-atlanta-star-declares-im-not-going-to-sit-and-cry-about-spilled-milk-its-done)
## Before television
Faust first gained public attention in 2003, when she appeared in the music video for [Pharrell Williams](https://www.edgepedia.org/pharrell-williams)' single "Frontin'" with the rapper Jay-Z.[2](https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-mimi-faust-of-love-hip-hop-atlanta/) • [7](https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/mimi-faust-interview-love-hip-hop-atlanta-star-declares-im-not-going-to-sit-and-cry-about-spilled-milk-its-done) Her main occupation at the time was business: she owned and operated Keep It Clean, Inc., an estate and commercial cleaning service in Atlanta.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) On the show, cast member [Joseline Hernandez](https://www.edgepedia.org/joseline-hernandez)'s taunt "Molly the Maid" drew on that business, which Faust pushed back against as a degradation of a young Black woman who owned her own company.[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/)
## Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta
In 2012 Faust joined the cast of *Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta*, a VH1 spin-off documenting the personal and professional lives of hip hop and R&B musicians, performers, managers, and record producers in the Atlanta area.[2](https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-mimi-faust-of-love-hip-hop-atlanta/) • [8](https://paramountglobalcontent.com/title/love-hip-hop) Her storyline centered on her relationship with Stevie J, whom she had dated from March 1997 to April 2012 and with whom she has a daughter, Eva.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) Season 1 opened with Stevie J presenting a new home to Faust far outside Atlanta, while his studio sessions with the artist Joseline Hernandez blurred into a romance, creating the love triangle that drove the show's early seasons.[4](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/love-and-hip-hop-atlanta/) • [9](https://globalgrind.com/1866028/mimi-faust-stevie-j-love-hip-hop-atlanta-child-interview/)
The show made her name, but she treated it as a platform rather than an endpoint. She told Parlé Magazine in 2015 that "Love & Hip Hop is not my end all be all," while crediting the exposure the show gave her as not replaceable.[3](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/) In a 2016 VH1 interview she said she still ran her cleaning business, had never stopped it, and was working on an interior design and home decor line, alongside a long-gestating book about her life.[10](https://www.vh1.com/news/cuu9kl/mimi-joseline-interview-love-hip-hop-atlanta-reunion)
During her run on the franchise she also became associated with a widely discussed 2014 sex tape with her then-boyfriend Nikko Smith. Speaking to Carlos King on the podcast *Reality With the King*, she said her daughter Eva learned of the tape from classmates at around age 11 or 12, before Faust could raise the subject herself; she had never allowed Eva to watch the show.[5](https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/mimi-faust-carlos-king/)
## Beyond the flagship show
Faust's screen credits outside the main series include small acting roles: as Reporter #4 in an episode of the series *Genius* (2021) and as Drea in an episode of *Star* (2018), plus the 2016 films *Prey Before You Eat* and its sequel.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/) • [11](https://www.metacritic.com/person/mimi-faust/)
In later years she deliberately stepped back from conflict-driven television. By the time of the second season of *VH1 Family Reunion: Love & Hip Hop Edition*, she told Essence that she had very little drama left in her life, that fans "seem to like me going through it" rather than seeing a happy Mimi, and that she was not willing to bring drama back for a paycheck. On that reunion series she worked through her co-parenting relationship with Stevie J, and she had reunited with her partner, the basketball player Ty Young.[12](https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/mimi-faust/) In 2026, appearing on FOX 5 Atlanta, she tied her teenage survival after leaving [Scientology](https://www.edgepedia.org/scientology) to the skills that later let her launch her skin care line, Oluremi.[6](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/fmc-ip4npxdtf1fwkld5.amp) On the *Mind Trap* podcast the same year she discussed building a business after television, including why visibility and fame do not by themselves create customers.[13](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-mind-trap-325123423/episode/the-mind-trap-ep-13-338906090/)
## References
1. [Mimi Faust, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082145/)
2. [One-on-One with Mimi Faust of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Press Pass LA (October 14, 2015)](https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-mimi-faust-of-love-hip-hop-atlanta/)
3. [Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta's Mimi Faust – Telling It Like It Is, Parlé Magazine (October 3, 2015)](https://parlemag.com/2015/10/lhhatl-mimi-faust-interview/)
4. [Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, Paramount+](https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/love-and-hip-hop-atlanta/)
5. [Mimi Faust Says Daughter Learned Of Her Sex Tape Through Classmates, Essence](https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/mimi-faust-carlos-king/)
6. [Real Talk with Mimi Faust, FOX 5 Atlanta (October 5, 2026)](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/fmc-ip4npxdtf1fwkld5.amp)
7. [Mimi Faust Interview: "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" Star Declares, "I'm Not Going to Sit and Cry About Spilled Milk. It's Done", Smashing Interviews Magazine (October 14, 2015)](https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/mimi-faust-interview-love-hip-hop-atlanta-star-declares-im-not-going-to-sit-and-cry-about-spilled-milk-its-done)
8. [LOVE & HIP HOP: ATLANTA, Paramount Global Content](https://paramountglobalcontent.com/title/love-hip-hop)
9. [MiMi Faust On Stevie J: "The Guy You See Right Now Isn't The Guy I Had A Child With", Global Grind (July 23, 2012)](https://globalgrind.com/1866028/mimi-faust-stevie-j-love-hip-hop-atlanta-child-interview/)
10. [Mimi Calls Joseline "Trash"... , VH1 News (August 10, 2016)](https://www.vh1.com/news/cuu9kl/mimi-joseline-interview-love-hip-hop-atlanta-reunion)
11. [Mimi Faust, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/person/mimi-faust/)
12. ['I'm Happy': Mimi Faust On The Work She Did To Finally Be Drama-Free, Essence](https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/mimi-faust/)
13. [The Mind Trap Ep. 13 | The Visibility Trap | Tel K. Ganesan with Mimi Faust, iHeart (July 15, 2026)](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-mind-trap-325123423/episode/the-mind-trap-ep-13-338906090/)
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