These days Melissa has earned a good reputation as a television personality from United States. If you are aware of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader that there is no doubt that you this charming lady.
As a bachelorette of “The Bachlor’s“, an ABC production, she got the real fame. She had earned round about $1.5 million.
Early life
Jessica was born in Dallas, Texas, united States of America on 11th March, 1983. She has a white ethnicity and American nationality. Her parents gave her the name Melissa Katherine Rycroft. Bob Rycroft is her father and Mary Rycroft is her mother.
She passed her childhood days in Dallas itself. From the early days she was into dancing. Seeing her interest in dancing her parents enrolled their daughter in one local school for dancing. There she captured the basic dancing techniques.
From this Dallas only she started her journey of life and gathered good fame in a very short span with sincerity and discipline. From the early days of her life she used to amaze all with her amazing drilling skills. This drilling efficiency had given her the scope to be the lead officer of the drilling team when she was doing her schooling.
Melissa got her education from the Newman Smith High School of Carrollton. After completing her education in school she enrolled herself in The University of North Texas. From the university she owns the graduation in the most promising career of today’s world. She is the bachelor in marketing and finance. She was among the other members of Alpha Chi Omega when she was in the university. After completing her formal education she engaged herself with the responsibility of a sales representative.
Career
After some days in the capacity of sales representative Melissa got into Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader which is a group of performers who invoke spirit in the morals of the team and its fans. She was cheering for American Football team, Dallas Cowboys. The first session of “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team” which was telecasted by CMT TV, have seen one versatile contestant, yes she is no other than Melissa Rycroft. She was wooing with her appeal in the show from 2006 to 2007. But the audience were disheartened as Melissa withdrawn herself because of some personal issue.
After a while Melissa was back to her viewers with more efficacies. She was seen onscreen in “The bachelor”, where more than twenty five bachelorette have participated. During this time she got involved with Jeson Mesnick, who proposed Melissa but got away as he gone into her life.
After “The Bachelor’s” she was chosen at the very last moment to be in the eighth session of one much talked about dancing program “Dancing with the Star’s”, as a replacement of Nancy O’Dell. She could hardly practice to perform in the session premiere but still managed to be the second performer although she remained satisfied with third overall ranking.
She became a well known correspondent serving Good Morning America and also took initiation in co hosting the program Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year Eve with Ryan Seacrest by her side. The duo amazingly hosted the program and was achieved much recognition from the public. She was also listed among the 100 Most Beautiful People which was an initiation by the People’s magazine. She was put to nomination for the Top Hot 100 by Maxim. She also published a book and named it My Reality.
Personal life
Once Melissa considered herself to be not so lucky as she was not getting a good match for her instead of her most wanted figure for ‘The ‘Bachelors’. It was reported that Cheerleader had seven year long relationship with her school boyfriend. Then she was engaged with Jeson Mesnick but the relation broke as Jeson got interest in Molly Malaney.
She actually returned to her ex-boyfriend Tye Strickland and today she is happily married with Tye. The couple married on 12th December, 2009 after dating for some time. The couple has been blessed with three children namely Ava Grace, Backett Thomas and Cayson Jack.
Quick summary:
Full Name: Melissa Katherine Rycrof-Strickland
Date of Birth: 11th March, 1983
Birth Place: Dallas, Texas, United States
Age: 34 years
Profession: Cheerleaders, TV Personality
Height: 1.6m / 5.24 Feet
Weight: 54 Kg
Net worth: $ 1.5 million
