

As a teenager, she attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, whose school sweater she wore in the pages of Playboy.ġ0.

Her mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan, was a steel mill foreman.ĩ. Actress Melissa McCarthy is her cousin.Ĩ. She is the second of four daughters, her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. She was born into a working class Catholic family and has Irish, German and Polish ancestry.ħ. She was born on November 1, 1972, in the southwest Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park, Illinois.Ħ. She’s been described as, “the nation’s most prominent purveyor of anti-vaxxer ideology,” but she has denied the charge, stating, “I am not anti-vaccine.”ĥ. However, both claims are unsupported by medical consensus, and her son’s autism diagnosis has been questioned.Ĥ. McCarthy has publicly spoken about the idea that vaccines cause autism and has claimed that chelation therapy cured her son of autism.

She has written books about parenting and has become an activist promoting research into environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism.ģ. McCarthy is a former co-host of the ABC talk show The View.Ģ. Take a look below for 30 more fun and interesting facts about Jenny McCarthy.ġ.
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McCarthy parlayed her Playboy fame into a television and movie acting career, starting as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy Magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. Jennifer Ann McCarthy is an American actress, model, television host, author and screenwriter.
