Jenny McCarthy Bio 
Jenny McCarthy is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, and author. Born Jennifer Ann McCarthy on November 1, 1972, in Evergreen Park, Illinois, she has also been credited as Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg, Jennifer McCarthy-Wahlberg, Jenny Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg, and Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg. Playboy named her its October 1993 Playmate at 20. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1994. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
McCarthy has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 38-24-34.
She turned the kind of early attention most young entertainers only dream about into steady television work, landing the co‑host gig on MTV’s Singled Out from 1995 to 1997. The show sharpened her comic timing and gave her a live‑wire persona suited to hosting, sketchy bits and reality‑TV banter — a skill set she would return to throughout her career.
Film offers followed in modestly different registers: she appeared in comedies such as BASEketball and Scream 3 and wrote, produced and starred in the romcom Dirty Love (2005). On the small screen she fronted short‑lived series bearing her name — The Jenny McCarthy Show and the NBC sitcom Jenny — and accumulated a string of guest turns and hosting slots that kept her a familiar presence in entertainment coverage.
Television remained a throughline. She joined the daytime panel on The View in 2013 and, beginning in 2019, has been a regular panelist on The Masked Singer, a role that brought her back to unscripted television’s gossipy, personality‑driven center. Reality projects have also intersected with her personal life: she and Donnie Wahlberg married in 2014 and later appeared together on the docu‑style series Donnie Loves Jenny; she has one son, Evan, from a prior marriage.
Outside camera work she built a parallel career as a writer and public advocate. A New York Times bestselling author, her memoir and parenting titles include Belly Laughs and Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic, books that folded humor into domestic detail. That same domestic focus informed her advocacy around autism after her son’s diagnosis. Her family story reaches into modeling as well: her sister Amy McCarthy was named a Playboy Cybergirl of the Month in January 2005, a sibling footnote that politely echoes the public life Jenny has sustained across several media.
