Jenny McCarthy ID Card

After Jenny McCarthy graduated from high school, she attended Southern Illinois University 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: a sitcom called Jenny and an MTV sketch comedy show called The Jenny McCarthy Show. Both shows lasted to 7 and 17 episodes. She also 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.

In 1998, McCarthy starred in BASEketball. In 1999, she starred in Diamonds, a movie which was directed by her husband John Mallory Asher. The next year, she starred in the popular horror movie Scream 3. Since 2001, McCarthy has guest-starred in many shows as Stacked, Charmed, The Drew Carey Show, Fastlane and Just Shoot Me!.

In 2003, McCarthy appeared in Scary Movie 3 along with model and actress Pamela Anderson. In 2005, McCarthy 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."

 

Though McCarthy initially rose to fame because of her sexual image, a frequent source of her humor derives from scatalogical jokes; particularly the shock or surprise of seeing a beautiful woman do something like vomit, pass gas or pick her nose. McCarthy has played off of both sides of this image. For instance in a cover photo for Rolling Stone magazine McCarthy was scantily clad in a bikini, but at the same time was squirting mustard all over a hotdog whilst it splattered unattractively all over her body. Another Candies ad which did not cause as much controversy found McCarthy passing gas in a crowded elevator. A sketch on her MTV show centered around her character, a well-coifed business woman, answering the question of "What did you have for lunch?" by forcing herself to vomit all over a table. The direct contrast of McCarthy's reputation as a sex symbol and this often grotesque humor is closely associated with her image. This was taken to a head in her film Dirty Love, which featured scenes such as McCarthy's character sitting in a massive pool of her own menstrual blood. The film was not well received.

 

 

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.