What Happened to Tomika Skanes? Did She Snag Herself A Baller?

Tomika Skanes is an established professional model/actress of exotic roots of African American and Korean American heritage. Her mother is full Korean and her father is African American. Tomika's parents met and fell in love while her father was stationed in Seoul, Korea. Tomika is the only girl in the family and is the middle child. Tomika has two brothers, Jimmy Skanes (older) and Donald Skanes, JR (younger). Tomika, being a military brat, traveled to various military bases all over the world and her family finally settled in Atlanta, Georgia. Tomika attended Georgia State University, where her major was Computer Science. Currently, Ms. Skanes resides in Atlanta where she designs websites for a living and owns a Modeling agency of her own called Industry Factor.

Tomika Skanes began her modeling career at age 22 when she was discovered at a basketball game.

Video appearances for various artists to her credit include:

Ginuwine, Metallica, Jagged Edge, India.Arie, Ludacris, and OutKast.

Tomika Skanes has also modeled in the Import Racing Scene which seems to be the spring board for a great modeling career.

Tomika eventually moved into the music video scene. She was able to land jobs related to the music industry that include CD covers for OutKast's "Stankonia" CD cover 2002, the cover for Big Boi's 2003 CD "Speaker Boxx" and promotional material for 112's 2003 CD.

Tomika has also done consistent print work. To her credit are covers and editorial/pictorial spreads in many urban mainstream magazines such as Black Men mag, SSX, KING mag, XXL magazine and Smooth Magazine. Major magazine print work is also included in Tomika Skanes portfolio. Tomika has been featured in major hair magazines such as Black Hair Sophisticates, Style Q, Metrostyles, Salon Profiles, and Montage Magazine.

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Comment by Miss Beauty on March 31, 2008 at 1:07pm
Pretty Girl. I remember her from the Jagged Edge video, Walked out of Heaven.
Comment by rena on March 31, 2008 at 3:31pm
i don't remember her
Comment by melissa on March 31, 2008 at 6:39pm
i used to date her brother i think they are so beautiful and her brother jimmy is fine as hell
Comment by Indentical Twin on March 31, 2008 at 6:43pm
Guys, this is becoming funny now! There is that word exotic again. Exotic only applies to mix breeds?
Comment by Ryn on March 31, 2008 at 6:47pm
I remember Tomika from the album layout in one of OutKast's albums.
Comment by Mercedes on April 2, 2008 at 11:02am
yeah what happened to Mika?
Comment by Miss Sweet Jones on April 7, 2008 at 11:34am
What is up with her? I haven't been to her website in a while. She was real cool.
Comment by Carmelcuttie27 on April 7, 2008 at 11:51am
Don't remember the chick

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