Editing Monica Potter (section)

==Early life==
Monica Potter's mother was a secretary in a hospital, and her father invented the first flame-resistant car wax.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hobson|first=Louis B.|title=Payback time for Potter|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/1998/12/19/760963.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140111002228/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/1998/12/19/760963.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 11, 2014|publisher=[[Canoe.ca]]|access-date=January 10, 2014|date=December 19, 1998}}</ref> Potter has three sisters (Kerry, Jessica, and Brigette). Her maternal grandparents were [[Irish American|Irish]] immigrants, and she was raised [[Catholic]].<ref name="info">{{cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/2001/04/07/760958.html|work=CANOE - JAM! Movies - Artists|title=Potter, Monica: Potter has planted her roots|publisher=[[Canoe.ca]]|access-date=March 31, 2007|date=April 7, 2001|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714115731/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/2001/04/07/760958.html|archive-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref><ref name="maxim">[http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=3960 The Full Monica Article on Maxim.com :: Hot Girls, Babes, Sex, Photos, Videos, Gear, Entertainment<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165434/http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=3960 |date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref> As a child, Potter wanted to be a nun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catholic-link.org/while-at-a-national-shrine-monica-potter-tells-reporter-she-once-wanted-to-be-a-nun/|title = While at a National Shrine, Monica Potter Tells Reporter She Once Wanted to be a Nun|date = 14 December 2018}}</ref>

During her childhood she attended the [[Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School#Villa Angeles Academy|Villa Angela Academy]], and graduated from [[Euclid High School]].<ref name="ex-clevelander">{{cite web|last=Urbancich|first=John|title=Ex-Clevelander Soars In "Con Air"|url=http://monicapotter.wz.cz/media/exclevender-soars-in-con-air.htm|work=Sun Newspapers, Cleveland|access-date=November 13, 2007|date=May 29, 1997|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202550/http://monicapotter.wz.cz/media/exclevender-soars-in-con-air.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> She also spent part of her early years in [[Arab, Alabama]].<ref name="ex-clevelander"/> Potter had wanted to be an actress since childhood.<ref name="info"/> She began acting at the [[Cleveland Play House]] when she was in elementary school.<ref name="ex-clevelander"/> Starting at age 12, she worked at a flower shop, and later in her teens, she worked in a sub sandwich shop and did some modeling for newspaper and magazine ads and local commercials.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hobson|first=Louis B.|title=Along came Monica|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/2001/04/05/pf-760959.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140111103203/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/P/Potter_Monica/2001/04/05/pf-760959.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 11, 2014|publisher=[[Canoe.ca]]|access-date=January 11, 2014|date=April 5, 2001}}</ref> After appearing in several commercials in [[Chicago]], Potter relocated to [[Los Angeles]] in 1994.<ref name="ex-clevelander"/> In 1995, she appeared in the [[Alan Jackson]] music video for "[[Tall, Tall Trees#Music video|Tall, Tall Trees]]".