Tionna T. Smalls
Tionna Tee Smalls (born September 16, 1984) is an American author, media personality, relationship advisor, youth advocate and star of VH1's reality television series What Chilli Wants. Early life and education Smalls grew up in a two-parent household along with three sisters and was raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York. After completing her primary education, Tionna attended the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan and studied sociology at Stony Brook University. Professional career In 2007, Smalls released her first book with IUniverse publishers, a self-service publishing company entitled “Girl Get Your Mind Right,” a book that encourages women to focus on the realities of dating and how to deal with members of the opposite sex. Following the success of the book an updated version was released in 2010 after Smalls signed a new book deal with HarperCollins publishing. The book became popular after Smalls’ promoted it to Gawker Media and she was later hired as a writer in 2008 to provide relationship advice to readers. This occurred after receiving an influx of attention as a result of an email that Smalls wrote in third person to the editors of the magazine asking them to