[3][4] Prior to February 2021, Brown worked as the owner of a day care center, Tessica's Little Angels, and a dance team, the Dazzling Divaz, and was the mother of five children.
Asia Milia Ware of Teen Vogue wrote that she had "all of social media invested [in her] hair journey" and Brown became known as the Gorilla Glue Girl online.
She soon got a call from Gina Rodriguez, a California-based executive producer and the owner of entertainment company GiToni Productions, who recommended her to Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng.
Avani Reyes, another social media user, also went viral later that month for claiming to have accidentally put Gorilla Glue in her hair, and was described by the New York Post as Brown's first copycat.
[3] Saturday Night Live referenced Brown in a sketch about two lawyers, played by Regina King and Kenan Thompson, pursuing a class-action lawsuit against Gorilla Glue due to people using it as a beauty product.