Neither she nor her husband appear in The Sims, although their daughter Diane does. According to Melinda's SimDNA in SimPE, her hair was black before it turned grey. According to her age data, she had 16 days left in the elder life stage when she died. Like most pre-made deceased Sims from The Sims 2, Melinda is completely unplayable without the use of hacks or third party programs, such as SimPE. She, like Irma Oldie, as well as some other Sims, has an unused hairstyle, which appears to be a more solid version of the choppy hairstyle which is not unused.