 Since the early 2000s, she has owned stores in Summer Hill and in Newtown.Monica Maria Trápaga was born in 1965 and grew up in Wahroonga, New South Wales as the youngest child of a Basque-Chinese father, Nestor Juan Trápaga, and a Catalan-American mother, Margot (born 1935, née Esteban).Her older siblings were all born in Manila, Philippines