Melissababy (2024)

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Was Melissa pregnant during Total Madness? ›

She was about four months pregnant while filming the finale, but didn't know.

She eventually revealed the father of her child as professional footballer Danny Simpson. However, they quickly ended their relationship and agreed to raise their baby together. Melissa has since accused him of abandoning their daughter, Vienna.

Melissa Reeves

In May 2020, the three-time Challenge competitor welcomed her first daughter.

Melissa is making her long-awaited return, and while her fiery personality is still there, her life has changed quite a bit. This single mom of a three-year-old has more fight in her than ever.

It was also revealed that for sometime Melissa had been faking a pregnancy due to the fact she had a miscarriage. Melissa had miscarried the day after she found Ian's body. In "Birds of a Feather", Melissa is accused of being the Black Swan due to significant evidence being found in her closet.

Melissa reveals, along with being the Black Swan, that she lost her baby the day after Ian was found dead. She was going to tell Spencer, but found Ian's phone in Spencer's possession, and had been faking her pregnancy ever since.

She retrieved the baby from the toilet bowl, placed it in a plastic bag, and deposited it in a trash can. It is thought that she severed the umbilical cord on the serrated edge of a sanitary napkin dispenser and suffocated the child.

On Saturday, she shared a heartbreaking update indicating that her mother died. As of this writing, details are unknown about the circ*mstances of her mother's death. Melissa previously indicated disappointment with her mother's alcohol issues and her absence from her life.

After filming the World Championships, Amber revealed on social media in January that she and her The Challenge: Ride or Dies partner, her boyfriend Chauncey Palmer, were expecting. "Call me mama because I'm having a baby!" she wrote.

Personal life. Tamburello was in an on-again, off-again relationship with fellow The Challenge competitor Diem Brown from 2006 until her death in 2014. In 2016 Tamburello welcomed a son with girlfriend, Lilianet Solares; the pair were married in 2018. They divorced in 2023.

Who is Melissa's daughter on The Challenge? ›

Melissa Reeves' world has "changed forever" in the best possible way. On May 24, The Challenge star became a mom when she welcomed daughter Vienna Simpson Reeves via C-section.

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She had to deliver the newborn through an emergency C-section instead of the natural birth she had planned for. "At 7 lbs, 4oz. and 20 inches, Kai Aiden is the most perfect little human I have ever met," she told E! News.

She currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago so please don't make fun of her accent when it slips out. Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion episode 9, "A Banana Split." The Challenge star Melissa Reeves never holds back.

The Challenge's Derrick Kosinski and Wife Nicole Welcome First Baby Together, Son Maverick, on Mother's Day. Zoey Lyttle is an Editorial Assistant at PEOPLE. She writes digital specials across all entertainment verticals and has been working at PEOPLE since July 2022. Derrick Kosinski is officially a boy-dad of two!

The real reason behind Amy's secret identity as a pregnant inmate in Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 3 is that Melissa Fumero was actually pregnant with her first child at the time of filming.

While Amber had already shared the news that she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Chauncey Palmer during The Challenge: Ride or Dies reunion, the former Big Brother contestant did not know she was pregnant when she flew to South Africa.

It's worth noting that Melissa didn't know she was pregnant at the time of filming. I'm not saying that has any bearing on her performance in the final or her decision to quit, but this might be the first time a player has competed while pregnant on The Challenge.