Talk:Jenny McCarthy

Vandalism?

please add the citation for the "fart right away" quote. Streamless 16:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

PoV / trivia

Someone has taken a hacksaw to my edits to this article - someone with very little grammar skill and an obvious affinity based POV for McCarthy. I am re-editing. Pacian 06:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I made a change to add some humorous (true!) trivia about a website Jenny maintains. The edits were removed by EngineerScotty, but I think he failed to realize that the hilariously ridiculous assertions were totally true! So I created an account and reinstituted my changes. Knodi

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

I didn't know the proper placement in the article for this, but McCarthy is an actor in the upcoming video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. They use real-life cutscenes in which she will act.

http://investor.ea.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=88189&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1188849 75.67.186.66 (talk) 13:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

WWE

This article doesn't mention her appearances with WWE. She was Shawn Michaels' valet at WrestleMania...I think 11... She will also appear at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, in which they will raise money for Generation Rescue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.171.140.225 (talk) 02:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Rolling Stone cover

Someone wrote,

"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."

Since someone included the jpeg for this article, I'm wondering if people are paying attention. 1 - She is NOT in a scantily cald bikini...she's wearing a bikini top and shorts. 2 - Mustard is NOT "splattered unattractively all over her body." If anything, the purpose of this cover was to titillate with sexual imagery.

Accordingly, I removed this part of the article. Asc85 17:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced trivia

• McCarthy's younger sister, Amy, is now a Playboy model.
• McCarthy is currently a spokeswoman for José Cuervo Tequila.
• McCarthy worked as a meat slicer at a Polish grocery store in Chicago.
• Was known for a long time as "Vanna White of the next generation" for her role on the game show "Singled Out."
• She is known to have a foot fetish and enjoys showing her bare feet to guys and having them played with.
• She was voted the "Best Breasts of the 90's" by Playboy magazine subscribers.
• McCarthy hosts an online community for mothers, IndigoMoms.com.
• McCarthy is a die-hard Barry Manilow fan. She began liking him since the age of 2 and has seen his recent concerts in Las Vegas.

If possible, please provide sources for these trivia items before reincorporating them into the article. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me

What's with the nudity?

Jenny McCarthy is known for many things, one of which is appearing in Playboy, however this encyclopedia is for everyone, not just adults, so therefore I think the naked picture should be removed.

Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of children, but I've reverted to a less explicit photo because the Santa photo is too in-your-face for this article. Anyone who wants to put the Santa photo or another photo with similar exposure will need to get a consensus here first. -- Donald Albury^(Talk) 17:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Pro-wrestling

Why is she categorized as a professional wrestler valet for a one night gig, and why is there a whole section in her bio for it (Furthermore, why is this important)? Irk_(talk) 21:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

That's a good question, all it needs is a small mention, not a "section" for itself, besides that whomever put it there didn't even bother make it 100% accurate. EDIT: Whoops, forgot to sign my comment. PHOENIXZERO 09:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Good question indeed, and yeah it certainly doesn't need a section for itself. Perhaps it should be moved into the "Other interests" section? Or maybe "Public Persona"? Actually I think the latter should also be merged with "Other Interests" and the whole thing be renamed, though I can't think of an appropriate title at the moment. Any thoughts? Swimforestswim 08:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Can we get a better picture up there?

Please!

Picture description

i think the picture description is a bit wrong, or playboy is a lot tamer than its made out to be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.36.83 (talk) 17:13, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Controversy

McCarthy is making a fine idiot of herself claiming not only that Evan’s autism was caused by vaccines, but that autism can be treated with diet and vitamins. Aside from being false and worthy of inclusion in the article, it also begs the question: is she a closet Scientologist? — NRen2k5^(TALK), 12:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I whole heartedly agree. I'm writing this as I'm watching her interview on CNN. I can sort of understand what she is going through, but that does not give her the right to make outrageous sorts of claims. Autism is onset through a corruption of genetics which affect brain development. Autism is 5x more likely through be passed on through a corrupted chromosome from the mother or father during pregnancy. In addition, since when are "parental anecdotes" considered scientific evidence? I can honestly say that is one of the most BS things I have ever heard. Has this playmate even studied basic chemistry and biology? I think not. Darksamus8 (talk) 01:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Have you ever studied the autism cases? Thousands of American kids developed autism symptoms immediately after their series of vaccinations. Autism symptoms look exactly like those of mercury poisoning. So, yes, if the autism appeared directly after the kid has been given a vaccination, it's very likely that diet and vitamins help cleanse their system. 213.39.187.143 (talk) 07:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Autism symptoms manifest at a certain age. Vaccinations are given to children around the same time. This is a textbook case of why you cannot infer causation from a correlation. There is no proof of a connection, nor is there any evidence to warrant drawing one. Many things happen to children at that age in their development; none of them linked to vaccinations (Time Magazine had a good article about this here. We don't say that vaccination causes children to start crawling, or develop teeth -- so why draw a link to autism? Also, vitamins do not "cleanse systems" (whatever that means). Regardless, autism is a genetic disorder, not something caused by a build-up of "toxins".--Squishy bananas (talk) 16:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Its got to do with the mercury in the vaccines that they use to preserve them. There is plenty of information out there that does indicate that the vaccines lead to autism because of the way mercury affects the brain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.239.2 (talk) 02:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

The use of thimeresol the agent that contained the agent that led to the controversy over mercury poisoning being a causation of autism was eliminated in 2002 as it was removed from childhood vaccines then. see this link for the FDA's info on the issue [1], also here on studies involving the autism vaccine debate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.133.212.104 (talk) 02:56, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

@ 68.89.239.2: With plenty of information you hopefully don't mean the infamous Wakefield study, because this one's completely discredited by now. Latest refuting study for example here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003140 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.195.185.82 (talk) 16:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

He was probably referring to the misinformation antivaxers like McCarthy put out there, not any actual information. — NRen2k5^(TALK), 05:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

All your views here are surely irrelevant to the entry- McCarthy's activism, written in NPOV with no OR? So why the current OR and POV on the article page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.226.217 (talk) 09:37, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

So, this is a little obscure, but before she eventually decided that vaccines were the cause of her child's autism she wrote several essays in which she claimed that her son was an indigo child, as can be seen in this article written by her here: [2]. I think that the switch between that being cause of her child's autism to vaccines being the root is odd enough of a 180 degree switch that it's relevant enough to warrant mentioning in relation to her anti-vaccination efforts, though I don't know how to include it without disrupting the flow of the section as it's written.Yeahchris (talk) 02:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I would like to add the link to www.jennymccarthybodycount.com that was removed back in Feb 2010, but it was immediately removed by User:Dismas when I attempted to do so May 16, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by IIGLinda (talk • contribs) 08:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Sister Amy

Why does this article redirect from her sister Amy McCarthy too? She's not her. 213.39.187.143 (talk) 07:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Marriage

She just married a St Loise Blues NHLer. Like this weekend. Apparently they had a theme wedding. I'm sure a fan of the Blues will come along to update it though.Asatruar (talk) 12:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Removed original research

The cite does not say , "Her claims that vaccines trigger autism have contributed to distrust of vaccines, decreased immunization rates, and increased incidence of measles, a highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease."

Please discuss FX (talk) 14:46, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

It’s all true. The only inaccurate part is the implication that they’re her claims. They’re just claims that she parrots.

I don’t see the OR part. Did you maybe miss the article’s second page? — NRen2k5^(TALK), 06:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Appeared on Wings TV show *after* it was cancelled?

Articles says that "since 2001" she has appeared in (among other shows) Wings. According to the Wings wikip page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(TV_series), that show lasted from 1990 to 1997. I don't know if the error is that she was never in Wings, or that she was in Wings long before 2001. Either way, there is something wrong there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.208.255.215 (talk) 00:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Scientifically unsupported claims

This part "promoting scientifically unsupported claims" is biased to say the least. The only one that don't support the claims are the BigPharma laboratories and their subsidiaries FDA and CDC. There are thousands of doctors that support the same claims. Check Dr. Blaylock, for example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.204.236 (talk) 23:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I removed this language from the introductory paragraph and added neutral language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.53.123.194 (talk) 23:04, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

The phrase "promoting scientifically unsupported claims" is still there, and is incredibly biased. Did somebody change it back (with good reason)? Redmac54 (talk) 04:42, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

How exactly is it "biased"? Jackal Killer (talk) 20:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

It isn't. It's just that for anti-vaxers, science is optional when it suits them, and therefore this reads as biased to them. The claims are soundly debunked and can safely be categorised as "scientifically unsupported" or "medically unsupported", and no amount of honey can make them any less so. It'd be more "biased" if it said "ignorant, dangerous claims with no basis in science at all", even though that is true, too. Scientifically unsupported is carefully neutral language that very adequately describes the situation. Mirithing (talk) 11:58, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Public Persona

Why is Jenny McCarthy described as deriving her fame from "toilet humor"? She is a comedian. Something makes me think the same thing would not be said, unjustly, about any of the male actors and comedians in performance and movies with countless scenes of diarrhea, farting, crotch shots, debilitating crotch shots, vomiting, sexual accidents, and other graphic what have you. Just because a woman passes gas does not mean that "toilet humor" is her forte. Come on, people. I have never linked McCarthy with "toilet humor," only a refreshing presence in the overrepresented male-based comedy. Can someone a bit less ignorant (and more informed about the details of her comedic career than I) re-write this section, please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.127.106.238 (talk) 15:04, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Removed amateur website from external links

Using Wikipedia to pimp your site, not a good idea. FX (talk) 22:12, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

"Model" or "Adult Model"

McCarthy is called a model everywhere in this article. Model_(person) is defined as "a person who is employed for the purpose of displaying and promoting fashion clothing or other products and for advertising or promotional purposes or who poses for works of art." According to this definition and McCarthy's page, she has "modeled" once, for "Candie's", with her underwear around her ankles, no doubt a reference to her "adult modeling" career, exposing her breast and genitals for the pleasure of consumers of Playboy magazines. In contrast, her entry says that she has performed this "adult modeling" several times; it is why she is famous in the first place.

I humbly request that McCarthy be referred to as an "adult model" anywhere she is currently called a "model", unless the reference is specifically related to her work as a model (per Wiki's definition) promoting products and advertising. It is disingenuous to do otherwise. DGGenuine (talk) 14:34, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

After looking into one user's activity regarding the term "Adult Model", I have discovered that at least that user discourages the phrase for lack of clarity. I personally find the term very clear, in that it refers to someone whose modeling is/was generally considered inappropriate for minors. Such modeling would usually involve displaying sexual organs, and since several societies disapprove of minor consumption of such materials, i.e., minors viewing sexual organs, the materials are called "adult" materials, and the persons appearing in them are "adult models". I do not find the justification that this category is somewhat nebulous to be sufficient to remove the category, for as even the US highest court has acknowledged, adult materials are difficult to classify. I am sympathetic to the concern that "adult model" could encompass everything from almost nude artwork to hardcore pornography, and the concern someone might have for another's reputation by calling them an "adult model" when they are on the soft side of the spectrum. Personally I don't share the concern, but I understand how someone could have it. There appear to be two, non-mutually-exclusive solutions: (1) categorize a person more specifically as either a glamour model, softcore pornographic model, or hardcore pornographic model. Or (2) apply the existing Adult_model Category:

This category and its subcategories are restricted to people verified to be "adult models" by occupation, according to reliable published sources. It is only for models who appear in adult-oriented materials, not merely for models who are adults, or who have done some "glamour" work.

W.r.t. (1), I would not consider Ms. McCarthy to be a softcore pornographer (although I have only seen a couple of her Playboy materials), so in (1) I would call her a glamour model. I personally find the word "glamour" to be candy coating, but I may just be unfamiliar with the term. Perhaps it is a term of the trade. Much better that the wiki page for it seems to refer to the type of work McCarthy performed. Anyway, if (1) were taken, references to "model" should be replaced with "glamour model", except in the one instance when McCarthy engaged in modeling to promote a product. This would entail linking the phrase "glamour model" to Glamour_photography or Model_(person)#Glamour_models.

W.r.t (2), I would consider McCarthy to have done more than "some glamour work" considering that she has done it multiple times over the course of several years and that it was how she originally became famous. I would therefore apply this category DGGenuine (talk) 01:03, 10 June 2010 (UTC)