When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.
JENNY MCCARTHYWhen I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.
JENNY MCCARTHYIf you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.
JENNY MCCARTHYI’m the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.
JENNY MCCARTHYI’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?
JENNY MCCARTHYObviously, I’m not a trained actress, and right now I’ll come out and say I’m glad I’m not.
JENNY MCCARTHYI 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.
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 MCCARTHYAll 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.
JENNY MCCARTHYKids will not listen to that. They’re going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
JENNY MCCARTHYAlmost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you’re a nun. Jesus can’t dump nuns.
JENNY MCCARTHYAt 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.
JENNY MCCARTHYI have my once-a-month nachos, but it’s soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it’s somewhat safe. But it’s still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.
JENNY MCCARTHYMy tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It’s a great little secret.
JENNY MCCARTHYIt’s absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
JENNY MCCARTHYWhen 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.
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.
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