Melissa Gorga
Gorga in 2019, photo by Debby Wong/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Melissa Ann Marco
Place of Birth: Montville, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 21, 1979
Ethnicity: Italian [including Sicilian]
Melissa Gorga is an American television personality, author, singer, designer, and businessperson.
She grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, and Boca Raton, Florida, the daughter of Donna and Anthony Marco. Melissa is married to businessperson Giuseppe “Joe” Gorga, with whom she has three children. Giuseppe is the brother of television personality and fitness competitor Teresa Giudice.
Pictures of Melissa’s father can be seen here and here. A picture of Melissa with her mother can be seen here.
Melissa has roots in Minturno in Lazio, Campania, and Sicily.
Melissa’s paternal grandfather was named Carmen N. Marco (the son of Anthony Marco and Louise). Carmen was born in New Jersey, to Italian parents.
Melissa’s paternal grandmother was Jennie Tamburello (the daughter of Antonio Tamburello and Maria/Marie Guarisco). Jennie was born in New York, to parents from Palermo, Sicily. Antonio was the son of Margaret.
Melissa’s maternal grandfather was the son of Frank Ceravolo and Anna Creo. Anna was from Naples.
Sources: Family history of Melissa Gorga – https://www.myfamilygenie.com
Melissa’s paternal grandfather, Carmen N. Marco, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Melissa’s paternal grandmother, Jennie Tamburello, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Melissa’s maternal great-grandmother, Anna (Creo) Ceravolo, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Anyone saying she’s black is a —–. She looks like a typical Southern Italian/Sicilian girl. She looks like she could be Giuliana Rancics sister
Literally all of her features are normal for Italians. “But but her natural hair is curly” oh my god I didn’t realize having curly hair meant you were black. John C Reilly is actually black you guys his birth name was actually Jayshawn C Reilly
The one drop clown show is pitiful isn’t it?! Lol
most of the people on this web are Americans who are F*ukin stupids as Hell, Lol
Btw, this woman is 100 % European but according to many people on this web she is also looks mixed, Right ??! Lol.
.https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/comments/nphl94/common_traits_for_this_ethnicity/
@Andrew133, who is this person you sent a link of their DNA results to on reddit? and why are you using this thread to call Americans stupid?
@jackson9
she has English and French heritage, and according to her DNA, she is 100 % European with no Native/African/MENA heritage at all, I call Americans stupid because many of them are really stupids, they think that European should be super Pale with very light Features (thin lips, this nose, straight hair, coloured eyes, etc), and if they see a European with exotic look then they should be mixed with Native/African, that’s why they are Fu*kin stupids as hell, tons of Europeans could look very exotic/mixed without any African/Native heritage like this woman and Melissa Gorga, Period .
@Andrew133
You are delusional. The 100% European woman you keep posting has shared another result that displays other things,:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/s/PH9v7IxkPP
1st AncestryDNA isn’t the most accurate, 2nd old results tend to get overwritten, 3rd admixture tests are not the end all be all of truth of heritage, 4th sometimes lab techs tamper with results, 5th admixture results are interpreted and approved by fallible people, whether they intentionally or unintentionally make mistakes, mistakes still happen, 6th this science of dna analysis correlating to regional heritage is ever changing based on new chip sets, new sample sets, new methodologies, it’s constantly in motion, it is an inexact process, that has a significant factor of guess work, 7th exceptions prove the rule, 8th none of these commercial companies factor in ancient admixture events, they only interpret data around 250 years back, haplogroups do indeed get lost in shuffle, but foreign dna can still be present which affects phenotype, and if it was added before 250 years ago, it’s up to the geneticists whether or not they consider it significant enough to mention, which they typically do not.
You have to take all these into account before treating these admixture tests as gospel. Plus you have no idea whether or not if that reddit user posted legitimate results. Just like the lab techs that tamper with results to subvert people’s notions of ethnicity and race, that reddit account could be a false flag messing with people.
@andrew
Thanks for finding the Gedmatch results, they make more sense.
@andrew
sorry but the only delusional is you.LMAO
Do you know that nearly all Europeans have west asians , East Med, etc on them,
Dude, you seem extremely ignorant about human Genetics, GEDmatch results not contradicting ancestry results at all, LMAO.
@passingtime85
I like how you keep all these excuses all the time, It is very hard to you to admit that Europeans sometimes could look very exotic/mixed without any Asian/Native/African on them, Right ?
@andrew
GEDmatch results counting the ancient admixtures, all Europeans have East med, west asians, etc on them, and her results on GEDmatch are very normal for any European person if you don’t know, I recommended you to read more about human genetics, may be you learn something new
@Andrew133
Excuses, reason, logic, w/e term you want to use, each individual caveat is valid. We’re equally stubborn. You won’t budge, I won’t budge. But I won’t let you, inform and/or chastise our fellow users and the comment section at large, without painting a more complete picture.
She’s always looked “exotic” or not entirely European, especially when she was younger. Even her children look “off”. Odd because neither of parents look that dark.
Either she’s adopted, one of her parents is lying or genes are random and she just ended up looking like that. Though I’ve never heard of any rumours that her biological father was some type of Cuban.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4137506.stm
I personally know several people you dont need DNA tests to discover their fathers are not the biological ones.
It’s very possible that her supposed biological father isn’t hers. I wonder if she’ll ever take a DNA test in the future and publicly post the results.
“Off” well we all know who the person that is NOT Italian and who doesn’t have killer genes is and it’s definitely look at you in the mirror buddy.
You one drop clowns are so pitiful . You’re either boring white people or jealous Black people.
lol, whatever helps you sleep at night.
I’d like to sleep with her, if Mr. Gorga doesn’t mind.
You’re such an @sshole. lol
I like exotic women.
Is there something wrong with that?
Is her birthplace unknown because she was adopted?
No, she was born in Montville, New Jersey to Anthony John Marco and Donna Marco, and grew up in Tom’s River.
Here father:
http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Screen-Shot-2013-06-16-at-9.46.34-PM.png
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIWTJVWhNeL/?utm_source=ig_embed
Her mother:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxXcGJ7AuI5/?utm_source=ig_embed
She very much looks like a mix of her two parents. Sadly, she lost her father to a car accident when she was only 17 years old. :( Beautiful family; I see where she got her looks from.
I just asked her birthplace.
I know the couple who raised her.
Her birth parents are blacks.
Possibly related to:
http://www.impawards.com/2016/meet_the_blacks_xlg.html.
There is no hospital in Montville.
I doubt she was born at home in 1979 in U.S.
Hence her birthplace is fake.
Birth places aren’t always necessarily where you were physically born. It could be where you and your family lived at the time of your birth. Do you really want her to not be Italian so bad that you take the time to look up if her birth town has a hospital or not? It proves nothing.
@Madman Wikipedia even has a category of famous adoptees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Montville,_New_Jersey
Montville, New Jersey is known as the adoption capital of the world.
It’s also curious, whenever I see any picture of Melissa Gorga of my choice, I always have this same reaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_mHQt88ls
It’s the same reaction I have when I see a picture of Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Shailene Woodley, Gabrielle Union, etc.
@madman
Yes, I check it. If there’s no hospital in Montville, where was she born?
If you think this woman is Italian, you have mental issues, sorry.
I’ve heard Vladimir Putin’s Mexican grandfather was adopted and brought up in Montville.
According to legend, a bunch of Turkish babies were also once adopted by families in Montville. Today, their memory lives on through the Turkish appearance of their descendants, most of which are American celebrities.
Wasn’t it the Black Air Witch who cursed Montville New Jersey’s early European settlers in 1371, after a bunch of children pelted her house with macaw droppings right before Hallowmass, declaring that henceforth no baby shalt be born on Montville grounds for 610 years?
It looks like Melissa just missed the deadline. More so if she’s lying about her age.
Jokes aside, where was she born?
Did American kids use to be born at home in late 70s? Just asking.
@madman
Birthplace is not a minor detail. It has legal importance.
Blacks? lol One Drop Clowns gonna clown!
She has visible African ancestry : https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/media-gallery-computer/public/legacy/images/real-housewives-of-new-jersey-season-3-before-they-were-housewives-melissa-09.jpg?itok=hGDgr6l_
Big deal.
She looked like someone with East African ancestry from former Italian colonies when she was younger.
Another option in that her biological father may not be the Italian man you find in Google (she does not strike me as a sibling of her sisters anyway). Her mother looks pretty much European. One of her kids looks also very brown, he would be bullied at school in Italy.
She favors a Dominican girl I know.
Which makes sense since ALLEGEDLY her biological father is a mixed cuban. There are puerto rican and cuban women who look more European than Melissa.
No there aren’t lol they don’t look Italian sorry lol are you casting for a spike lee film?
So do millions of Caucasian/white Americans, who have no verifiable black ancestry!