I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.
JENNY MCCARTHYA talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there’s a host and there’s guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don’t have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.
More Jenny McCarthy Quotes
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I’m the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.
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You don’t need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance – don’t stare.
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What is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
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Kids will not listen to that. They’re going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
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I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
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I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night – I don’t mix protein and carbs.
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Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of what I did.
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I didn’t have to work out before 35 but now I have to.
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The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there’s such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
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Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
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People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we’ll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.
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I don’t really go out much at all. But there are times when I’m like, ‘I gotta get out.’ Then we go to Vegas, and we’ll gamble.
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All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.
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Obviously, I’m not a trained actress, and right now I’ll come out and say I’m glad I’m not.
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When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
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My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
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When I first went public with my son Evan’s story, I just planned to talk about the ‘R’ word – Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the ‘V’ word – vaccines.
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The University of Google is where I got my degree from.
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I’m not a sex symbol.
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If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.
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Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn’t come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.
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If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we’d rather have the measles versus autism, we’d sign up for the measles.
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At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
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I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
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I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
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Having a child makes you realize the importance of life – narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.
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