Jenny McCarthy (Jennifer Ann McCarthy) is an American actress, model, author and even activist which is currently more famous as a playboy model. She was born on November 1, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois, to an Irish Catholic family. She is the second of four daughters, and her mother, Linda, was a housewife, while her father, Dan, was a steel mill foreman.
Jenny McCarthy Biography
Date of Birth : 1 November 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name : Jennifer Ann McCarthy
Nationality : American
Height : 5′ 6½” (1.69 m)
Spouse : John Mallory Asher (11 September 1999 – 2006) (divorced) 1 child
Sign : Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Virgo
Career
After getting accepted by Playboy in 1993, the magazine wanted her to pose for the October issue. She was paid $20,000 for the photo shoot. McCarthy became the Playmate of the Month and later the Playmate of the Year. In 1994, thanks to this newfound attention and popularity, McCarthy moved to Los Angeles and, for a time, hosted Hot Rocks, a Playboy TV show featuring uncensored music videos.
Hollywood auditions proved difficult to come by, and it took incessant badgering from Ray Manzella, her fourty-seven-year-old manager and live-in boyfriend, to land an interview at MTV. The network’s producer appreciated Jenny and hired her to co-host Singled Out, which debuted in the summer of 1995. Funny, telegenic, and curvy Jenny McCarthy had an immediate success. MTV was eager to retain its hot property and coughed up a $500,000, one-year contract that promotes McCarthy to full-fledged VJ and gives her carte blanche to create a program of any format that best suits her talents.
She then starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom, The Jenny McCarthy Show (1997). She made her film debut with a tiny role in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995) and had her first major role in the abysmal comedy The Stupids, as a neurotic film star opposite comedian Tom Arnold. In 1998, McCarthy co-starred in David Zucker’s BASEketball. She had a supporting role in the comedy Diamonds.
In 2000, Jenny McCarthy continued her stint on the big screen with a role in Scream 3 alongside David Arquette and Neve Campbell. In 2003, she appeared in Scary Movie 3 with fellow Playmate Pamela Anderson. In May of that same year, Jenny McCarthy gave birth to her son, Evan Joseph.
In 2005, Jenny McCarthy tried her hand at producing and writing with the film Dirty Love, which also starred Carmen Electra, who, if you remember, took over Jenny McCarthy’s role on Singled Out.
McCarthy had the distinction of appearing on both Scream 3, and the spoof Scary Movie 3. She published two books about pregnancy and motherhood. She wrote and starred in the romantic comedy Dirty Love, but the film had a limited theatrical run. In 2006 she appeared as a very sexy mom in the teen comedy John Tucker Must Dies, and she gained some off-screen notoriety by being romantically involved with Jim Carrey.
Spouse
McCarthy began dating actor/director John Mallory Asher. The couple became engaged in January 1999, and married on September 11 of that year. They have a son, Evan Joseph, born on May 18, 2002. Evan was diagnosed with autism. In August 2005, McCarthy and Asher filed for divorce.
