Melissa Gorga
Reality Star
One of The Real Housewives of New Jersey who joined the show with her husband in the third season to start a series of memorable fights with her sister-in-law.
She worked as a cocktail waitress in a strip club to put herself through college. This is disputed, however, as Teresa Guidice has claimed she was a stripper, not a waitress.
She signed on as the spokeperson for Voli Light Vodka, called "the world's first low-calorie vodka."
She has three children, Antonia, Gino and Joey, with Joe Gorga, a successful real estate developer whom she married in 2004. She has sisters named Lysa and Kim.
Danielle Staub was another Real Housewife of New Jersey. Like everyone else on the show, the two have argued about their differences.