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Jennifer McCarthy (born November 1,
1972) is an American model, actress and author. She
first appeared in Playboy magazine in October 1993 and
was named Playmate of the Year in its June 1994 issue.
She later began a career in television and film and has
recently started writing books.
Early life: McCarthy was born in Chicago,
Illinois, to a middle-class Irish American Catholic
family that lived in Southwest Chicago in the West
Elsdon neighborhood. She is the second of four
daughters; her sisters are named Joanne, Amy and
Lynette. Her mother, Linda, was a housewife, and her
father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman. She
attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago's South
Side.
As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother
McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose school sweater
she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was cheerleader
at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High
Schools, although she has referred to herself as an
"outcast" at her school. After McCarthy
graduated from high school, she attended Southern
Illinois University Carbondale to study nursing. She
needed money to pay for college, so she decided to
submit her picture to Playboy magazine to make money.
She was accepted and became a model.
Modeling and acting career: After getting
accepted by Playboy in 1993, the magazine wanted her to
pose for the October issue. McCarthy was paid $30,000
for the photo shoot. McCarthy became the Playmate of the
Month and later the Playmate of the Year. With this,
McCarthy gained attention and popularity. In 1994,
McCarthy moved to Los Angeles. For a time, she hosted
Hot Rocks, a Playboy TV show featuring uncensored music
videos.
In 1995, MTV chose McCarthy to be the host of a new
dating show called Singled Out, for which she left Hot
Rocks. Her job as a host was a success, and Playboy
wanted her to model more. In 1996, McCarthy landed a
small part in the comedy The Stupids. In 1997 McCarthy
launched two shows.
The first one was an MTV sketch comedy
show called The Jenny McCarthy Show, which was popular
enough that NBC signed her to do a sitcom later that
year called Jenny, generally considered a disappointment
and was quickly canceled. Also in 1997, she appeared on
one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy,
the other cover had Pamela Anderson on the cover.
McCarthy also released an autobiography: Jen-X. McCarthy
once modeled for Candies, a shoe company. In one
advertisement, McCarthy posed naked wearing only shoes
and having her panties off while sitting on a toilet
seat. This stirred a controversy.
In 1998, McCarthy starred in BASEketball. In 1999, she
starred in Diamonds, a movie which was directed by her
husband John Mallory Asher. The next year, she appeared
in the popular horror movie Scream 3. Since 2001,
McCarthy has guest-starred in many shows as Stacked,
Charmed, The Drew Carey Show, Fastlane and Just Shoot
Me!.
In 2003, McCarthy appeared in Scary Movie 3 along with
model and actress Pamela Anderson. In 2005, McCarthy
produced, wrote and starred in Dirty Love along with
Carmen Electra. The same year, McCarthy hosted a new
show on E! called Party at the Palms. The reality show,
which is filmed at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas,
features hotel guests, party goers and celebrities
acting outrageously with McCarthy. In March 2006, she
was given Razzie Awards for "Worst Actress,"
"Worst Screenplay," and "Worst
Picture" for her work on Dirty Love, which also
netted her then-husband, John Asher, a Razzie for
"Worst Director."
Public persona: Though McCarthy initially rose to
fame because of her sexual image, a frequent source of
her celebrity derives from toilet humor, particularly
the shock of seeing a beautiful woman urinate, vomit,
pass gas, or pick her nose.
Another Candies ad, which did not cause as much
controversy, found McCarthy passing gas in a crowded
elevator. A sketch on her MTV show centered around her
character, a well-coifed business woman, answering the
question of "What did you have for lunch?" by
forcing herself to vomit all over a table (which she
then ate on-screen). The direct contrast of McCarthy's
reputation as a sex symbol and this often grotesque
humor is closely associated with her image. This image
was taken to a new extreme in her film Dirty Love, which
featured McCarthy's character sitting in a massive pool
of her own menstrual blood.
McCarthy has authored a series of three books about her
experience with pregnancy and raising her son, Evan.
Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and
Childbirth
Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of
Mommyhood
Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage,
and Moving On.
McCarthy is also an occasional columnist for FHM
magazine and is currently a spokesperson for Weight
Watchers.
Personal life: In 1993, McCarthy underwent breast
augmentation to enhance her look as a model for Playboy.
Borrowing a page from fellow Playmate Pamela Anderson's
publicity playbook, McCarthy took them out in 1998.
McCarthy dated her manager Ray Manzella for a short time
in 1998. After breaking up with Manzella, McCarthy began
dating actor/director John Asher. The couple got engaged
in January 1999, and married that year on September 11.
They have a son, Evan Joseph, born on May 18, 2002. In
August 2005, McCarthy and Asher filed for divorce.
In a February 2006 interview with Howard Stern, adult
actress Jenna Jameson said she had two sexual encounters
with McCarthy.[4] When McCarthy visited Stern's show in
April 2006, she denied having sex with Jameson, but said
she "made out" with her during the two
encounters. McCarthy also took a lie detector test and
passed the questions regarding Jameson. During the
appearance, McCarthy also admitted to having performed
oral sex on women and that she cheated on her ex-husband
with both men and women. However, in a later appearance
on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she claimed they didn't cheat on
each other because it was totally agreed upon.
In December 2005, McCarthy began dating actor Jim
Carrey. They did not make their relationship public
until June 2006.
In May 2007, McCarthy announced that her son was
diagnosed with autism and would be coming out with a
book on the subject shortly. Louder Than Words: A
Mother's Journey in Healing Autism is due out in
September of 2007.
She lives in Sherman Oaks, California, next to heiress
Margo Wilson. Her cousin is Melissa McCarthy of the
Gilmore Girls.
Appearances in Playboy
special editions:
- Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 10 May 1994 - front
& back covers, pages 82-91.
- Playboy's Girls of Summer '94 June 1994.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 38 July 1994.
- Playboy's Playmates at Play July 1994 - pages 6-7.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 39 September 1994
- page 25.
- Playboy's Wet & Wild Playmates September 1994
- page 73.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 40 November 1994.
- Playboy's Nudes November 1994 - cover.
- Playboy's Playmates in Bed Vol. 1 January 1995.
- Playboy's Supermodels February 1995.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 44 July 1995 -
cover.
- Playboy's Nudes October 1995.
- Playboy's Winter Girls February 1996.
- Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 1 December
1998 - pages 6-7.
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