The season 2 episode "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy" reveals that Sharona had married Trevor out of high school, but it did not last long, leaving her with an infant, Benjy, to raise on her own. When Benjy was one, she did some nude modeling under a pseudonym in Atlantic City, revealed to Monk in that episode when Dexter Larsen threatens to publish these photos to keep Monk from investigating him further. In the season 1 episode "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck asks Sharona if she is "still making house calls," to which Sharona replies that "she doesn't do that kinda stuff anymore," implying that at one point she used her LPN training to do home health care.