Anecdotes

She (as Raquel DeMarco) and Erika Eleniak both made their Playboy modeling debuts in the same issue - the February 1989 Playboy Newstand Special (aka Playboy's Great Playmate Hunt, The Women of Playboy's 35th Anniversary Search).

Cast to play the "Italian Mafia Princess" on WOW: Women of Wrestling (2000), but did not appear in the final roster.

Winner, Fox Reality Channel Really Award for "Favorite Meltdown" for her appearance in I Know My Kid's a Star (2008). (2008)

Aunts: Terri DeMarco, Anne DeMarco, Gloria DeMarco, and Jeanette DeMarco, who (together with Arlene DeMarco) made up the singing group The DeMarco Sisters.

Parents: singer Arlene DeMarco, of the singing group The DeMarco Sisters, and actor Keefe Brasselle.

Daughter (with Rob Sanchez): actress/singer Hayley Sanchez, born 1998.

Uncles: actors Murray Hamilton and Remo Pisani.

Cousin: actor/stuntman/composer Stephen Pisani.

Met her future partner, Rob Sanchez, on the set of Loved (1997).

In a co-parenting relationship with Rob Sanchez, father of her daughter, Hayley Sanchez.

Ex-partner of stuntman Rob Sanchez.

Melissa and both of her parents, Arlene DeMarco and Keefe Brasselle, were born under the sun sign of Aquarius. Remarkably, Melissa's only child, Hayley Sanchez, is also an Aquarius.

Appeared with her daughter, Hayley Sanchez, on the first episode of "Dr. Drew On Call [2011]", discussing child stars.