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Date of Birth
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01-November-1972
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Place of Birth
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Evergreen Park
(Illinois, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Jennifer McCarthy, Jennifer Ann McCarthy, Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy, Jennifer "Jenny" McCarthy, Jennifer Ann McCarthy, Jenny, Dženi Mekarti, Dženifer Mekarti, Ðенифер Мекарти
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Profession
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Comedian, Actor, Model, Author, Presenter, Television Producer, Voice Actor
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Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, television host, comedic actress, author, 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 parlayed her Playboy fame into a television and film acting career. She is currently a co-host on the ABC talk show The View.
McCarthy has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting research into environmental causes and alternative medical treatments for autism. She has claimed that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helped cure her son of autism. Both claims are controversial and unsupported by the mainstream medical consensus, and her son's autism diagnosis has been questioned.
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