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Melissa Gorga’s busy life as a mom of three is what keeps Envy running. The “RHONJ” star, 40, opened her New Jersey clothing store in 2015, inspired by her desire to look stylish despite her hectic schedule. “I do drive my kids to football and cheer, to school … and I do like to be …
Melissa Gorga’s busy life as a mom of three is what keeps Envy running.
The “RHONJ” star, 40, opened her New Jersey clothing store in 2015, inspired by her desire to look stylish despite her hectic schedule.
“I do drive my kids to football and cheer, to school … and I do like to be put together. It makes me feel good,” Gorga told Page Six Style while promoting her partnership with Bikini Zone and its new Anti-Bump Shave Gel ($6.99).
She and her husband, Joe Gorga, share daughter Antonia, 14, and sons Gino, 12, and Joey, 10.
“I started with Envy because I used to see that even when I was just throwing on a legging and a sweatshirt, I was able to put it in a way where it looked cute,” Gorga explained. “And I feel like I try to do that. I try to put together little outfits for moms on the go.”
Continued the star, “I do buy a lot of the two-piece sets. A lot of the two-piece loungewear sets with the really cute sweatpants and the sweatshirt to match that you’re going to run from the school to the food store to even go meet your girlfriend for lunch at the mall and still look super cute [while wearing].”
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Gorga added that despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Envy’s loungewear sets have been selling “great through COVID.”
“I would say March and April were tough because we had to close the doors down and sales were very slow online just from everyone saying, ‘Okay, what are we buying clothes for? We’re not going anywhere for the next three to four months,’” she said.
“And then, it was crazy — as soon as June hit, you could tell that people were told we were allowed to go out and summer was hitting, and everything just kind of skyrocketed and went back to normal and was actually even better than normal.”
While the reality star is “super, super proud” of what she’s accomplished with Envy, she isn’t quite ready to sign the lease on a second location just yet.
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“I think about it all the time,” she told us. “I just don’t know where the right spot would be just because it is a little bit of a fan destination, so I don’t know if it would be the right move to put another one in New Jersey. I’ve always thought the next spot I would do would be somewhere on Long Island. I definitely looked through some locations. Nothing in stone yet, but I think that’s where the second one would go.”
For now, Gorga is splitting her summer between her home in Montville and her house at the Jersey Shore, and keeping her fingers crossed that she won’t have to moonlight as a teacher again come September.
“It was pretty bad with all three of them and three different schools,” she laughed. “It was insane. I was like, ‘I don’t know how anyone is actually doing this,’ but all I know is that I’m praying for school to go back in September. That’s what I’m praying!”
