Monika Lerchová was born in May 1966 in Sušice (Western Bohemia), where she lived throughout her youth; later on, she moved to Holýšov, a small town in the same region. Her mother was a shop assistant, her father a truck driver. She attended primary and secondary (grammar) school in Sušice, then she studied at the Faculty of Education of the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, majoring in the teaching of children from six to ten years old. In 1990, she started working as a teacher at the Holýšov primary school.

During her university studies, she married and became pregnant. So she finished school as a mother with a young son and graduated in high pregnancy while expecting her second son. She spent the year 1989 on maternity leave; thanks to her husband, who founded the Civic Forum in Holýšov, she followed the revolutionary events “first hand” [Civic Forum/Občanské fórum was a political movement that arose two days after the beginning of the “Velvet Revolution” in Prague, it was a spontaneous platform for civic independent activities].

She is married and she has three adult children (two sons and a daughter). She still teaches at the Holýšov primary school the youngest children. Since 2018, she has been a member of the cultural commission of the town Holýšov and organizes events for children and youth. Her hobbies are theater (she is a member of the amateur theater ensemble in Holýšov) and classical music.