Melissa Willets

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Location
St. Augustine, FL
School
Bucknell University
Expertise
Celebrities, Health, Pregnancy, Parenting
  • Melissa has interviewed a range of celebrities from Renee Zellweger to Kristen Bell.
  • Her essays on parenting have gone viral, and been picked up by Yahoo and the Daily Mail.
  • She has been a vegetarian for 30 years.

Experience

Melissa has worked as a professional writer for 12 years. She has previously written for Parents.com, PopSugar, and BabyCenter. Her work has been featured on Today.com, Good Morning America, BBC radio, HLN, HuffPost Live, and in The Washington Post and The New York Times. She feels lucky to get to write about her passions: parenting, pop culture, and health and wellness. With five kids, and a lifelong commitment to a daily practice of yoga and keeping up with Hollywood, she can sometimes find time to enjoy her other favorite pastime, which is drinking coffee.

Education

Melissa's father gave her the best advice on her education: Study what you love. And so she did, and continues to live by this mantra. She earned a B.A from Bucknell University.
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