FAST FACTS

-Melina was born on March 9, 1979 in Southern California.
-Melina's ethnicity is American with Mexican descent.
-Melina is bilingual - she can speak Spanish fluently.
-Melina's favorite food is ice cream.
-Melina's done modeling ads for Nike.
-Melina (as Kyra) used to manage Frankie Kazarian when they were both in the EWF - a southern California wrestling promotion.
-Melina's former wrestling alias, Kyra, was the sister of Desire (Shelly Martinez) while they feuded in EWF.
-Melina was on the casting special of Tough Enough 3.
-Melina had a tryout match for the WWE in late 2003 in the hours before a RAW with Molly Holly.
-Melina was signed by the WWE to a developmental contact in early January 2004.
-Melina debuted in OVW on March 20th, 2004.
-Melina's WWE character was hired by one-night GM Randy Orton on the November 29, 2004 RAW.
-Melina - along with Johnny Nitro and Joey 'Mercury' Matthews made their SMACKDOWN! debut on April 14th, 2005.
-Melina was trained to wrestle by Jesse Hernandez at his "School of Hard Knocks".
-Melina was approached to try pro wrestling by family friend Mike Henderson.
-Melina won her first-ever WWE match by defeating Michelle McCool on June 30th, 2005
-Melina is very close with the children of Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero.
-Melina's favorite band is No Doubt.
-Melina is Mick Foley's "all-time favorite bad girl on television".

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