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Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg born November 1, 1972 is an American actress, model, television personality, and anti-vaccine activist. She began her career as a nude model for Playboy magazine in 1993 and was later named Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then pursued a television and film acting career, beginning as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out (1995–1997) and subsequently starring in the eponymous sitcom Jenny (1997–1998), as well as BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Dirty Love (2005), 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 music competition show The Masked Singer.
McCarthy has written several books about parenting and has promoted research on environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism. She has promoted the false idea that vaccines cause autism, and stated that chelation therapy, a fake treatment, helped cure her son of autism. McCarthy's promotion of these views has been called "dangerous", "reckless", and "ignorant" Journalists have described her as "the country's most prominent promoter of anti-vaxxer ideology"and "the face of the anti-vax movement".She disputes the anti-vaccine label, and says she prefers the term "pro-safe-vaccine-schedule"
McCarthy was born on November 1, 1972, at Little Company of Mary Hospital in the southwest Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park, Illinois. She was raised in a working-class Catholic family and has German, Irish, and Polish ancestry. She lived in Chicago's West Elsdon neighborhood She is the second of four daughters—her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne, and Amy; actress Melissa McCarthy is her cousin.Her parents, Dan and Linda McCarthy of Orland Park, encouraged all their children to be active in high school sports: Lynette ran track; Jenny played softball; McCarthy's mother, Linda, was a homemaker and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman.
As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, whose school sweater she wore in the pages of Playboy, and was a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Lawrence High School, although she has referred to herself as an "outcast"at her school and has said she was frequently bullied by classmates. She spent two years at Southern Illinois University
Personal life
McCarthy dated manager Ray Manzella from 1994 to 1998 and began dating actor/director John Mallory Asher in late 1998. The couple became engaged in January 1999 and married on September 11 of that year. They have a son, Evan, born in May 2002, who was diagnosed with autism in May 2005. McCarthy and Asher divorced in September 2005.
In December 2005, McCarthy began dating actor Jim Carrey. They did not go public with their relationship until June 2006. She announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 2, 2008 that she and Carrey were living together but had no plans to marry, as they did not need "a piece of paper" Carey nearly staged a fake proposal to McCarthy on Ellen's Twelve Days of Christmas as a promotion for the film Yes Man (2008). In April 2010, McCarthy and Carey announced that they had separated.
In July 2013, McCarthy said she was dating singer and actor Donnie Wahlberg, best known as a member of New Kids on the Block and the television series Blue Bloods. On April 16, 2014, McCarthy announced on The View that she and Wahlberg were engaged, and they married on August 31, 2014.
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