In The Pink

Y&R’s Melissa Ordway Shares Her Joy Over Expecting Baby No. 2 — Oh, And It’s A Girl!

- Dersin Owens

A few months ago, Y&R’s Melissa Ordway (Abby) considered her life to be pretty darn perfect. Aside from working at a job she loves, the actress is happily married to Justin Gaston and raising their adorable daughter, Olivia. But life got a whole lot sweeter when Ordway unexpectedly found out she was expecting, a surprise that unfolded during lunch with another married couple. “I don’t know why, but I had a feeling she was pregnant,” Ordway explains. “Justin asked them, ‘When is Olivia going to have a new friend?’ And my friend said, ‘I cannot believe you asked that. We just found out we’re pregnant!’ We were cheering for her, we were so excited.” In the midst of the jubilation, Ordway realized that her own body schedule was off. “I was sitting there and it dawned on me,” she smiles. “I was thinking, ‘What’s today’s date? No, it couldn’t possibly be.’ ”

Doubt was a reasonable reaction for her, since prior attempts to start a family never panned out. “I told myself, ‘It’s probably nothing. I’m just being crazy because I’m stressed out or whatever,’ ” she recalls. “Plus, I had just started working out again, so I thought it was related to that.”