Since Melissa joined RHONJ in Season 3, motherhood has played a big part in her storylines. As a mom to Antonia, Gino, and Joey (who was a newborn on Melissa's first season and is now 9), Melissa struggled with wanting more of a career outside of the home and balancing Joe's old school ways. Against Joe's wishes, she opened her boutique, Envy, and it took off in a way that eventually made him eat his words.
On Season 10, Melissa has discussed how she feels less needed by her kids, and how they don't give her as much time and attention as they did when they were younger. With the passing of her 40th birthday, Melissa and Joe took the milestone as an opportunity to explore having a fourth child.
While the results of her and Joe's fertility exams haven't been revealed yet on the show, Melissa did say that she was pregnant while doing a press junket for the show.
When asked by E!'s Daily Pop if she would ever leave the Bravo show, Melissa said she couldn't because she and Joe were "pregnant at this point." Multiple media outlets picked up Melissa's comment, and took it to mean that she was expecting again.
When speaking with Hollywood Life Melissa said that her pregnancy statement was just a poor comparison she made about being too involved in the show to ever quit it.
"Insert foot into the mouth?" Melissa said about the misconstrued remark. "It was a really bad analogy. I was trying to say like once you’re already pregnant with the show, in other words you can’t [leave] — once it’s there, it’s there type of thing."
In another interview, she later referred to the show's 10th season as "another baby."
But, that doesn't mean that Melissa's baby fever is gone. The reality star posted a throwback video from her first season of the show on Dec. 3 on her Instagram page. The video features Melissa explaining Christmas to Antonia and Gino back when they were much younger.
She captioned the video, "Where did my little babies go!! I want to say I’m very proud of both of them, they literally have grown up on reality TV and have remained humble, kind, and grounded. I love them both so much."