I can’t even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
JENNY MCCARTHYI can’t even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
JENNY MCCARTHYThe reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there’s such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
JENNY MCCARTHYSo basically, I don’t know what I’m talking about. But maybe I do.
JENNY MCCARTHYCorner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they’ll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they’ll run for the door. They know better.
JENNY MCCARTHYWithout intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
JENNY MCCARTHYI wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.
JENNY MCCARTHYWhat 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.
JENNY MCCARTHYIf 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.
JENNY MCCARTHYI look at autism like a bus accident, and you don’t become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
JENNY MCCARTHYThose outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
JENNY MCCARTHYI 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.
JENNY MCCARTHYPeople don’t see this side of me. They don’t know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
JENNY MCCARTHYIt can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.
JENNY MCCARTHYYou totally value and respect your body as you get older.
JENNY MCCARTHYWhen I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
JENNY MCCARTHYGoogle is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we’re all dying because we look up something on Google. But there’s also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
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