Melissa Beck

Melissa Howard was born February 12, 1977, in Okinawa, Japan to a Filipino mother and Black-American father. She, her older sister Marlene and their younger brother, Michael, She attended Brandon Senior High School and the University of South Florida, from which she graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communications. ==Career==

In 2000, Howard was one of seven people selected from a pool of 35,221 applicants to be cast on The Real World: New Orleans, the ninth season of the long-running MTV reality television series. MTV producer and casting director, Andrew Hoegl explains that she was selected on the basis of her audition tape, which he calls "hysterical", and credits the season's humor to Howard, who referred to herself in her audition tape as a "half-black, half-Filipino Chris Rock". Filming took place over the course of 124 days between January and late May 2000. Howard was ranked #92 on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100 Women of 2004" feature. She was a member of the all-female cast of the Oxygen network's hidden camera/practical joke reality television series Girls Behaving Badly, In April 2022, The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans premiered on Paramount+, reuniting Beck with all six of her former roommates from The Real World: New Orleans. ==Personal life==

After the run of Girls Behaving Badly, Howard moved to New York to work part-time in a non-entertainment industry-related job, and to live with her boyfriend, J. On August 22, 2012, Beck announced on her Tumblr that she and her husband were expecting another daughter. Maja Ilani was born on January 1, 2013. As of 2022, they have three children. In October 2012, a tree fell on Beck's house during Hurricane Sandy, destroying it and burying her older daughter in debris. Justin pulled the child out from the rubble, finding that she was apparently unharmed. They took the baby to the hospital, which discharged her three hours later, having confirmed that she suffered no injuries. ==Filmography==

As herself • The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans (2022) • Battle of the Network Reality Stars (2005) • Reality TV Secrets Revealed 2 (2004) • The Real World Hook-Ups (2003) • True Hollywood Story – Episode: The Real World (2003) • The New Tom Green Show – Episode: August 1, 2003 (2003) • Reality TV Secrets: How to Get on the Show! (2003) • Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes (2003) • Girls Behaving Badly (2002–2003) • The Real World Movie: The Lost Season (2002) • Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Extreme Challenge – Episode: #1.4 (2001) • The X Show – Episode: August 21, 2000 (2000) • The Real World: Tenth Anniversary Special (2000) • The Real World: New Orleans (2000) Actor • The Jamie Foxx Show – Episode: If the Shoe Fits (2000) Reporter ==References==