Melissa Brasselle

Melissa Brasselle was born on January 27 in Bronx NY Coming from a talented and well known family of actors singers writers and producers it was inevitable that she would follow in their footsteps Her mother Arlene DeMarco was the lead singer of the famous singing group The Five DeMarco Sisters as well as being the bestselling author of Triangle and Make Believe Children Her father was actor Keefe Brasselle who starred in a number of films including Academy award winning film A Place in the Sun He was best known for his starring role in the The Eddie Cantor Story Melissas parents both met each other on the set of MGMs Skirts Ahoy starring Ester Williams He too was a bestselling author first writing the controversial The Cannibals followed by The Barracudas She began modeling in her late teens and in 1989 Playboy launched a nation wide search of over 50000 girls for their 35th anniversary addition A submitted photo of her taken on a Polaroid placed her in the top five and landed her in the pages of playboy for their 35 anniversary addition Melissa gained the greatest notoriety however on a reality TV show for VH1 titled I Know My Kids a Star with her daughter Hayley DeMarco