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Introducing Jenny McCarthy - Profile and Photos
Profile: Jenny McCarthy
Jenny was born November 1, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois. Jenny
is a seasoned supermodel, television personality and actress. She is the second
of four daughters born to a hard working, middle class family, her mother
a housewife, and her father a steel mill foreman. Jenny grew up on the south
side of Chicago and her father always worked overtime to send his girls to
an expensive Catholic school. As a youngster, Jenny had the dream of becoming
a Olivia Newton-John or Lynda Carter. At the age of nine, Jenny dressed in
country-and-western attire, and with her grandmother's gargantuan sized bra
stuffed with socks, she played Dolly Parton for Halloween. Jenny remembers,
"I didn't have any guy crushes, I just wanted to be that girl star".
After graduating from high school, Jenny attended Southern Illinois University
to study nursing. After two years of college she decided to embark on a modeling
career. After leaving one of the modeling agencies in tears, and being a believer
in angels, she looked to the sky and saw the Playboy building. She says that,
"Something drew me there". My self-conscious was going, "no,
no, no", but my inner drive was going, "Yes, Yes, Yes". Jenny
delivered pictures of herself to Playboy, the editors liked what they saw,
and offered her $20,000 to pose for Miss October 1993. With this exposure,
she won the Playmate of the Year, along with a $100,000 salary, and a bevy
of promotional duties. Now, a Playboy babe, she moved from her native Chicago
to seek fame and fortune in the City of Angels. Jenny soon learned that auditions
were hard to come by even for a Playmate, but incessants landed her an interview
at MTV. Fortunately, MTV's producers liked what they saw in Jenny, and she
was hired to co-host "Singled Out", which debuted in the Summer
of 1995. Her beauty, snappy banter and amusing facial expressions made McCarthy
an overnight success. MTV was eager to keep her as host and came up with a
whooping $500,000, one-year contract that promoted her to full-fledged VJ.
They also gave Jenny an opportunity to format the program to best suit her
talents. Playboy, keen to further their relationship with Jenny, offered her
$500,000 for more nude pictures of the blonde beauty. However, she declined.
Jenny stated that this was not the career path she was interested in pursuing
and the magazine settled for rerunning old pictures of her. It looks like
this is one Playmate that won't be replaced for a long time.
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