Early LifeMcCarthy was
born in
Chicago, Illinois to a middle
class Catholic family that lived on the Southwest Side of
Chicago in the
West Elsdon neighborhood.
She is the second of five daughters; her
sisters are named Joanne, Amy, Lynette and
Melissa. Her mother,
Linda, was a housewife, and her father,
Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill
foreman.
[1] 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 cheerleading captain at nearby
St. Laurence High School, although
She has referred to
herself as an "outcast" at her school.
[2] 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.
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 only wearing
shoes and having her panties off while sitting on a toilet seat. This stirred a controversy.
Modeling and Acting Career
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."
In December 2005, McCarthy began dating
actor Jim Carrey. They did not make their relationship public until
June 2006.
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