Jenny McCarthy
American actress and model (born 1972) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg (née McCarthy; born November 1, 1972)[2] is an American actress, model, and television personality. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then had a television and film acting career, beginning as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out (1995–1997) and afterwards starring in the eponymous sitcom Jenny (1997–1998), as well as films including BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Dirty Love (2005), John Tucker Must Die (2006), and Santa Baby (2006). In 2013, she hosted her own television talk show The Jenny McCarthy Show, and became a co-host of the ABC talk show The View, appearing on the program until 2014. Since 2019, McCarthy has been a judge on the Fox musical competition show The Masked Singer.
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Born | Jennifer Ann McCarthy (1972-11-01) November 1, 1972 (age 51) Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.S. |
Other names | Jennifer Wahlberg[1] |
Alma mater | Southern Illinois University |
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Years active | 1993–present |
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Partner(s) | Jim Carrey (2005–2010) |
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McCarthy has written several books about parenting and has promoted research into environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism. She has promoted the disproven idea that vaccines cause autism,[3][4] and said that chelation therapy, a quack remedy, helped cure her son of autism.[4][5][6][7] McCarthy's proselytization of these views has been called "dangerous", "reckless", and "uninformed".[8] She has been described by journalists as "the nation's most prominent purveyor of anti-vaxxer ideology"[9] and "the face of the anti-vaxx movement".[10] She disputes the anti-vaccine label[11] saying she prefers the term "pro-safe-vaccine-schedule", a term that has met strong criticism.[12][13][14][15]