Melissa Gorga attends the 2024 People’s Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on February 18, 2024.Photo:Monica Schipper/Getty
Monica Schipper/Getty
Melissa Gorgais holding her immediate family close as she celebrates a momentous occasion!
As theReal Housewives of New Jerseystar turned 45 on Thursday, she shared anInstagrampost, letting her followers know how she celebrated the milestone.
“This dinner is all that matters. Happy Birthday to me ❣️,” she captioned a carousel of photos.
Melissa posed with her three children — Gino, 16, Joey, 13, and Antonia, 18 — and her husband,Joe Gorga, in the first photo in the carousel of images.
She stood out in the photo, smiling between her sons as she wore a bright yellow button-down blouse that she sells at her boutique, Envy, over what appeared to be a black jumper.
The Gorga family.Melissa Gorga/Instagram
Melissa Gorga/Instagram
The men in Melissa’s family were dressed down in black jeans or sweats for the birthday dinner, which she revealed took place atThe River Palm Terracerestaurant in New Jersey. Antonia rocked a white top that showed her stomach and a pair of light-wash jeans.
In her Instagram Story on Thursday, the reality star — who revealed that she’d been diagnosed with anemia in November 2023 — told her followers that she was starting the year off with a blood infusion.
Melissa Gorga.Melissa Gorga/Instagram
“As if I don’t have enough on my plate, I now need an infusion,” she said in the video. “I was extremely low again, and I have a busy weekend coming up for Envy. So, I’m just juicing up. Thank God for my doctor.”
Melissa’s feuds with her husband’s sisterTeresa Guidicehave been well-documented over the many seasons that they’ve costarred onRHONJtogether.
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Joe Gorga and Melissa Gorga attend the Netflix’s “Lift” World Premiere.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Jamie McCarthy/Getty
On a recent episode of herOn Display with Melissa Gorgapodcast, Melissa told her guestDenise Richardsthat her family’s relationship with Guidice, 51, is “definitely a rollercoaster,up and down” and that “we don’t even speak to each other” on season 14 ofRHONJ,which is set to premiere in May.
“I think finally everyone’s breathing, we’re actually all — including the other side — everyone is happier how it is right now,” she added, of her and her husband’s decision not to speak to Giudice.
Episodes ofThe Real Housewives of New Jerseycan be streamed on Bravo.
source: people.com
