Biography

Curvaceous, blonde Jenny McCarthy has tried to forge an acting career based on the strength of her vivacious and sometimes raunchy persona, but has had only moderate success. 

Prior to entering the entertainment industry as a Playboy centerfold, McCarthy studied nursing at Southern Illinois University. 

While scrambling through her second year, she decided that modelling would be more lucrative and dropped out. Though she possesses a wholesome, athletic beauty, her figure proved too voluptuous for high fashion modelling, so she marched to the Chicago offices of Playboy, handed them photos of herself and ended up chosen Miss October 1993. 

She was subsequently elected Playmate of the Year. This, in turn, led to an erotic video pictorial. Despite her notoriety as a pinup girl, McCarthy's initial bid for stardom in Hollywood met with failure, until her manager/boyfriend Ray Manzella doggedly convinced executives at MTV to audition her for the network's upcoming game show Singled Out, a ludicrous riff on The Dating Game in which contestants made fools of themselves to win dates with beautiful or handsome strangers. 

She won the part of co-host and soon proved herself the show's one redeeming feature. Realizing her potential, the network hired McCarthy as a vee-jay and then allowed her to develop her own show, which ended up a short-lived sketch comedy show. 

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. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Jenny made an appearance at the World Wrestling Federation's Wrestlemania XI on April 2, 1995 as a guest valet for Shawn Michaels. She left after the match with the victor, WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel. 

Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions

  • Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 10 May 1994 - front & back covers, pages 82-91.
  • Playboy's Girls of Summer '94 June 1994.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 38 July 1994.
  • Playboy's Playmates at Play July 1994 - pages 6-7.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 39 September 1994 - page 25.
  • Playboy's Wet & Wild Playmates September 1994 - page 73.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 40 November 1994.
  • Playboy's Nudes November 1994 - cover.
  • Playboy's Playmates in Bed Vol. 1 January 1995.
  • Playboy's Supermodels February 1995.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 44 July 1995 - cover.
  • Playboy's Nudes October 1995.
  • Playboy's Winter Girls February 1996.
  • Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 1 December 1998 - pages 6-7.

 

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