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in 1992, before the glam, little Jenny McCarthy was just your average college
student struggling to make ends meet.When
she couldn’t come up with tuition for her second year of nursing school at
Southern Illinois,
Carbondale
, Jenny thought perhaps modeling was the way to go.Turned down again and again for being “too curvy” in a world
dominated by waifs, Jenny looked to the sky for direction and saw – of course!
– the Playboy mansion.A place
where waifs were not welcome and her curves would pay.
She
personally delivered photos to the magazine’s Chicago
office, and they agreed to feature her as Miss October 1993 for $20,000.She won the title Playmate of the year, the 100,000 prize that goes with
it, and her star was set.Or so it
seemed.Her struggles were not over,
as the transition from bunny to actress proved rather difficult.But her persistence, and that of her current live-in boyfriend/manager,
47 year-old Ray Manzella, paid off and Jenny received an interview from the
folks at MTV.They saw beyond the
curves straight through to her perky, quirky personality and hired McCarthy to
co-host Singled Out, which debuted in the summer of 1995.Jenny was more of a hit than the show itself, prompting MTV to secure her
talent with a position as full-fledged DJ and a one-year contract worth half a
million dollars.More
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