Jenny McCarthy really needs to stop with the Botox. Her face is getting that cat-like “mask” quality that you see a lot in women who regularly abuse the ‘Tox and fillers. Anyway, Jenny covers the new issue of New You Magazine and her interview is sort of interesting if you want to laugh about how she’s a jackass. First of all, this interview was conducted before she got fired from The View, which makes it funny (in a schadenfreude way) that she’s telling the magazine that she could see herself on The View for the next 20 years. Then she gets into her new engagement (to a man she’s been with for a year) and how Donnie is her everything. But my favorite part is when she tries to answer questions about the ongoing backlash to her anti-vaccine crusade. She was specifically asked about the recent Twitter debacle when tweeters went crazy bashing her “beliefs.”
Jenny on where she sees herself in 20 years: “Believe it or not, I think I’m still on The View. I love the show. I’m doing so much work to improve myself—signing up for critical thinking courses and doing all my media training. I want to be at the top of my game, and when I’m 60 I want to still have a face that moves.”
Jenny on reinvention: “When I first moved out to L.A. and I was a Playmate, I’d be asked, ‘What do you want to do?’ I’d reply, ‘Comedy.’ They’d say, ‘Honey, that’s funny. A Playmate in comedy? That’s never going to happen.’ But then I was on Singled Out. Later, I said I wanted to write a book and they said, ‘That’s hilarious. No one would pick up your book.’ Now, I have 10 books. I almost enjoy the challenge. You tell me I can’t do it? Guess what – I’m the rule-breaker.”
On Donnie Wahlberg: “He’s my mirror. Things were always unbalanced in my previous relationships – I’ve either been a teacher or a student. With Donnie, we’re just equal. I have my own identity and goals and he has his, yet we’re so similar we work on them together.”
The backlash against her anti-vaccine fake-science: “You have to be strong enough as a woman to voice your opinion, and sometimes you can get really beat up. … People are either with you or against you, and if you take a position and people don’t agree with it, they can hate you for life. When really, it’s just a position you hold, that has nothing to do with your personal self.”
“When I’m 60 I want to still have a face that moves…” The “still” implies that your face moves now, which it doesn’t, Cat-face. CB was annoyed by the “he’s my mirror” thing, which is sort of annoying but Jenny always gushes like that about whoever she’s with. I remember when she used to say that same kind of stuff about Jim Carrey. And let’s be real – this Donnie thing isn’t going to last. Maybe they’ll end up going through with the wedding, but it won’t last more than a few years. Trust.
But the worst part is how she answers the completely legitimate criticisms of her anti-vaccine pseudo-science. That’s what offends me the most. When the tide turned on her anti-vaccine stuff, she tried to backtrack and claim that she was never anti-vaccine although there’s a mountain of evidence to suggest otherwise. It’s disingenuous (at best) or idiotic to try to reframe the criticism as just people attacking her because she’s such a strong, opinionated woman. Blah.
Photos courtesy of New You.
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