Jenny McCarthy: podcast appearances and interviews

Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg, born on November 1, 1972, is an American actress, model, and television personality. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine, where she was later named Playmate of the Year. McCarthy subsequently pursued acting, appearing as a co-host on the MTV dating game show Singled Out from 1995 to 1997 and starring in her own sitcom Jenny from 1997 to 1998. Her film roles include appearances in BASEketball, Scream 3, Dirty Love, John Tucker Must Die, and Santa Baby. In 2013, she hosted her own television talk show, The Jenny McCarthy Show, and from 2013 to 2014, she co-hosted the ABC talk show The View. Since 2019, she has been a judge on the Fox musical competition The Masked Singer. McCarthy has authored several books focused on parenting and has advocated for research into environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism. She is a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement, promoting the disproven idea that vaccines cause autism and asserting that chelation therapy helped cure her son of autism. Her stance has been widely criticized and labeled as dangerous and reckless by journalists. Although she disputes the anti-vaccine term, preferring to identify as