Melissa Willets
Location
St. Augustine, FL
School
Bucknell University
Expertise
Celebrities, Health, Pregnancy, Parenting
- Melissa has interviewed a range of celebrities from Renee Zellweger to Kristen Bell.
- Her essays on parenting have gone viral, and been picked up by Yahoo and the Daily Mail.
- She has been a vegetarian for 30 years.
Experience
Melissa has worked as a professional writer for 12 years. She has previously written for Parents.com, PopSugar, and BabyCenter. Her work has been featured on Today.com, Good Morning America, BBC radio, HLN, HuffPost Live, and in The Washington Post and The New York Times. She feels lucky to get to write about her passions: parenting, pop culture, and health and wellness. With five kids, and a lifelong commitment to a daily practice of yoga and keeping up with Hollywood, she can sometimes find time to enjoy her other favorite pastime, which is drinking coffee.
Education
Melissa's father gave her the best advice on her education: Study what you love. And so she did, and continues to live by this mantra. She earned a B.A from Bucknell University.
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Stories By Melissa Willets
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One may not expect Jill Biden and Melania Trump to unite over anything. The First Lady and wife of the former president have taken veiled digs at one another.
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On the same day the First Lady's appearance at the Eagles game made headlines due to her tepid reception, Joe Biden is in the news due to a public blunder.
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The first lady, who hails from Eagles country, was on hand to help with the pre-match coin toss and to promote the administration's cancer-fighting initiative.
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All of a sudden, Joe Biden's brother is taking over headlines.
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Tamra Judge is known for honesty. In a blog post, the star wrote, "New rule...if you say it behind their back you should be able to tell them to their face."
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Gizelle Bryant admitted to spending time with Cynthia Bailey's ex. What is really going on between them? The reality star cleared the air at BravoCon 2022.
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It's clear Siriano, aka Ferocia Coutura, is a talented, vital member of the fashion industry. Fans wonder what he is like behind the scenes of "Project Runway."
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The bloom was off the peach tree when former Bravo star NeNe Leakes filed a lawsuit against the network for alleged discriminatory treatment on the show.
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Kate Middleton has confessed to feeling pressure when it came to naming her kids, Prince George of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Louis of Wales.
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A taco run turned into a PR nightmare for President Joe Biden when he was grilled by a Los Angeles-based reporter about $7 per gallon gas prices in the area.
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Dating was different in Shakespearean times. There's no way "Romeo and Juliet" could have anything in common with the plight of modern love seekers.
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When you think of "Romeo and Juliet," common words you might use to describe the famed story's traditional heroine are not "outspoken" and "career-driven."
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Liev Schreiber crossed paths with Naomi Watts in an oh-so-Hollywood way. They met at the 2005 Met Gala. Their "meet cute" could make for a romantic comedy.
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Royal family members imitating Princess Diana is expected. Someone else we couldn't predict would copy the former Princess of Wales is trending on Twitter.
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With the President having forgotten legislator Jackie Walorski passed away as a backdrop, Biden misspoke when talking about his son Beau's untimely passing.
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Joe Biden being the oldest president to be sworn into office has some inside his administration dreading his birthday, as the day only highlights this fact.
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Joe Biden knowing about his son's drug challenges at the time he bought a gun is not what Twitter is talking about after the release of the tearful voicemail.
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Let's just say the name the new parents selected for Princess Charlotte both delighted and surprised odds makers, and held more meaning than we guessed.
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It's no secret that late night shows are not as popular as they used to be. Now, Donald Trump is taking credit for the end of an era. Did he have a hand in it?
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Nearly 70 years after the Queen was crowned, her son, who attended her coronation as a child, will receive the same honor, with the King's coronation in June.
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Serena Williams is a tennis player boasting 850 career wins, an Olympic gold medal and 23 Grand Slams. Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit and made a ton of money.
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Vanessa Trump is best known for being the ex-wife of former president Donald Trump's son, Don Jr. The couple met in 2003 at a fashion show.
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Sarah Jessica Parker is a major fashion influence on pop culture — over the past decades. When "SATC" premiered we fell in love with Manolo Blahniks.
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Ron DeSantis told Florida's Voice that the national "regime" media "wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that that'd be worse for Florida."
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It's been four years since the investigation into Joe Biden's son's taxes began. Hunter Biden has yet to be charged. The case has been fraught with drama.
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Long before Instagram was even a thing, and even before Kim Kardashian was the biggest reality star on Earth, Paris Hilton was defining fashion.
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Some royal watchers swear that Princess Charlotte of Wales looks just like her mom, Kate Middleton. Others compared the child to her father, Prince William.