Jenny McCarthy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jenny McCarthy

American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1972

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, Playboy Playmate, film producer, presenter, autobiographer, anti-vaccine activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Jenny McCarthy

  • Jennifer Ann McCarthy (born November 1, 1972) is an American actress, model, television host, satellite radio broadcaster, author, screenwriter and anti-vaccine activist.
  • She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year.
  • McCarthy then had a television and film acting career, starting as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out, then some eponymous sitcoms, as well as films such as BASEketball, Diamonds, Scream 3, and Santa Baby.
  • She is a former co-host of the ABC talk show The View.
  • She is currently a judge on the FOX musical competition show The Masked Singer. McCarthy has written books about parenting, and has promoted research into environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism.
  • She has promoted the disproven idea that vaccines cause autism, and she believes that chelation therapy, a dangerous quack cure causing "serious concern", helped cure her son of autism.
  • McCarthy has been described as "the nation's most prominent purveyor of anti-vaxxer ideology" and "the face of the anti-vaxx movement".
  • Although she disputes the anti-vaccine label and has said she prefers the term "pro-safe-vaccine-schedule", this self-description has been met with strong criticism..
  • McCarthy's anti-vaccine activism has caused an increase in child deaths due to preventable diseases.

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