McCarthy was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to a middle-class Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. in 1996, McCarthy landed a small part in the comedy The Stupids. in 1998, McCarthy’s first major movie role was alongside Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the comedy BASEketball. She was the voice of Six in the third season of Canadian computer-animated science fiction cartoon Tripping the Rift.

She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their 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. in 1995, MTV chose McCarthy to be the host of a new dating show called Singled Out, for which she left Hot Rocks. The latter show is generally considered a disappointment and was quickly canceled. in March 2006, she was given Razzie Awards for “Worst Actress”, “Worst Screenplay”, and “Worst Picture” for her work on Dirty Love, which also earned Asher a Razzie for “Worst Director.” in addition to her early TV fame on MTV and her short-lived, self-titled NBC sitcom, McCarthy has guest starred in a variety of other television shows including Stacked, Charmed, The Drew Carey Show, Wings, Fastlane, Two and a Half Men and Just Shoot Me. She appeared on the cover of the magazine’s January 2005 issue wearing a leopard skin version of the company’s iconic “bunny suit” and was featured in a pictorial shot at Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in that same issue. She was the second woman (following Carmen Electra) and first former Playmate to become a celebrity photographer for the Playboy Cyber Club, where she photographed model Jennifer Madden. She once modeled for Candie ‘s, a shoe company.

Jenny McCarthy pooed on by bird Jenny McCarthy has joked that she hopes being pooed on by a bird in Florida will bring her luck. Jenny McCarthy believes she is set for some good luck… [link]

Most recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting claims–not supported by medical evidence–that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helps cure it. McCarthy was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to a middle-class Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. McCarthy’s mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, 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 a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High Schools, although she has referred to herself as an “outcast” at her school.