Jenny McCarthy Wiki, Biography, Diet, Career, Net Worth, Relationship and More

Jenny McCarthy Bio Data :

Jennifer Ann McCarthy was born at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on November 1, 1972 at a working-class Catholic family. Her mother, Linda, was a housewife while her dad, Dan McCarthy, worked in a steel mill. She climbed up together with her three sisters, Lynette, Joanne, and Amy. The favorite actress Melissa McCarthy is her cousin. She attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School during her teenage years and later became a cheerleader for St. Laurence High School and Brother Rice High School. After finishing her education, McCarthy enrolled in the Southern Illinois University where she spent two decades.

Jenny McCarthy dated actor John Mallory Asher for many months prior to marrying him in 1999. They have a son named Evan Joseph Asher (born May 18, 2002) who had been diagnosed with autism in May 2005. McCarthy and Asher finished their union with a divorce in September 2005. McCarthy dated actor Jim Carrey for nearly five decades. They revealed their connection on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in April 2008. They divide in 2010.
She married celebrity cum manufacturer Donnie Wahlberg on August 31, 2014, a year after they began dating.

Jenny McCarthy Career

Modeling Career
Jenny McCarthy began her career as a model when she was offered a sum of US$20,000 by ‘Playboy’ magazine to present for the book in 1993. She was selected from 10,000 applicants to become the Playmate of the Month for October that year. McCarthy posed wearing her Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School sweater and Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner confessed her ‘Catholic college girl’ character set her apart from others.

The Catholic community in her area didn’t appreciate her posing for the ‘Playboy’ magazine and created troubles for her and her loved ones. McCarthy once confessed that her neighbors had thrown eggs at her house and her sisters were mistreated at their schools. Due to her modeling career, some Catholic nuns whom she and her family considered close friends, lectured her along with her close relatives about the celestial punishment they would confront in afterlife.

McCarthy persevered despite the oppositions and proceeded to become an extremely successful model. She had been provided a US$100,000 contract by ‘Playboy’ magazine and has been made the Playmate of the Year in 1994. She later hosted a Playboy TV series ‘Hot Rocks’ that used to telecast uncensored music videos. McCarthy continued to work with ‘Playboy’ magazine and appeared as their cover woman in 1997 and later in 2005.

Activism

Jenny McCarthy’s son Evan was diagnosed with autism and since then she’s been working on creating awareness about the condition. She claimed her son’s autism was due to vaccines. McCarthy became a spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) in 2007 and became a prominent spokesperson and a member of the Board of Directors for the Generation Rescue foundation. McCarthy has written several books on autism and parenting where she publicly blamed vaccines for being one of the prime causes of autism. She wrote ‘Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Curing Autism’ in 2007. She said in her book that her then-husband John Asher couldn’t deal with their son’s autism which finally resulted in their divorce.

Major Works

Jenny McCarthy’s career highlight was her time with the ‘Playboy’ magazine. She gained fame after she became the Playmate of the Month for October 1993 and in 1994, she became the Playboy Playmate of the Year. She earned a $100,000 contract from Playboy and has been featured on the cover of this magazine multiple times.
In 2000, McCarthy was offered a part in the horror-comedy/parody movie ‘Scream 3’. She appeared alongside the likes of Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley, and Lance Henriksen. The movie was a box office hit and earned US$161.8 million.

Some Facts About Jenny McCarthy:

1. Jenny McCarthy date of birth is November 01, 1972.
2. She is 48 years old
3. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.