Most recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting the claims that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helps cure it–both claims are considered unsubstantiated by the medical community. 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. She was accepted and became a model. The first one was an MTV sketch comedy show The Jenny McCarthy Show, which was sufficiently popular for NBC to sign her for an eponymous sitcom later that year, Jenny.
Mccarthy Lands Own Talk Show Model-turned-actress JENNY McCARTHY is launching herself as a talk show host after landing her own TV program. The Jenny McCarthy Show will feature ce… [link]
