I’ve spent too much time thinking about Jenny McCarthy in the past 24 hours. She’s been in mist during the ongoing political clusterwhoops over vaccines, have you noticed that? After years of being the face of the Anti-Vax movement, Jenny has spent the past few years trying to walk away from that association. But her fingerprints are still all over this current mess, just my opinion. So why has Jenny tried to walk away from the Anti-Vax thing? Because The New Jenny McCarthy is all about being Mrs. Donnie Wahlberg. She’s not interested in being political or independent or strong anymore. Seriously, she just said that.
If you can’t tell from all their sweet kisses, Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg are madly in love! But more than five months after getting married, the SiriusXM radio host still hasn’t taken her man’s last name. So, what’s the hold up?!
“We have discussed it and I am ready to be Jenny Wahlberg,” she told E! News before supporting the New England Patriots during Super Bowl weekend. “I just haven’t been through the paperwork.” She added, “We work seven days a week and it’s not as easy as I thought. You don’t just go to the DMV and take a new picture. There is a lot to be done.”
It also helps that your man is totally chill with waiting throughout the process.
“It should be Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg and professionally, Jenny McCarthy,” the New Kids On The Block member explained to E! News. “She worked her ass off for so many years to be in the position she’s in her career that there’s no reason to put my name on the back of that.”
What could be most surprising to McCarthy fans is that the TV personality really wanted to keep her last name years ago. Today, she’s not about that life.
“I remember way back when I was Miss Independent. I would never take anybody’s name and as I get older, I want to be the girl. I’m so tired of being that strong, independent woman.” She added while laughing, “I want to be dependent and a girl and a wife and domesticated. I crave it after being alone for so long. I want to be Mrs. Wahlberg.”
I must have missed all those years when Jenny was alone. She was married, she had a son, she got divorced and started up with Jim Carrey. They were together for years. Then they were over, and she dated around and then she got with Donnie. If you can find a six-month period of time where she was single, please give me a heads up. As for wanting to give up her independence… eh, I think she sounds like a vapid fool, but it’s her choice and she’s not saying that every woman needs to follow her lead. I wonder what she’ll say about it when she and Donnie split up?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
And we all are tired of you, Jenny. And you just won’t go away. The best thing that can happen to us is for her to be Betty homemaker in a suburb in Boston and to never be heard of again.
Yes, I am EXHAUSTED of this woman and her cloying personality , whose imbecilic behavior has long lost whatever stupid charm it could muster in the late 1990’s. Her tendency to overshare, overcompensate and overwhelm the masses with every little detail of her courtship, marriage, pseudoscience, and bathroom behaviors has worn thin.
Please go home Jenny. Most people never considered you strong or independent. In fact, you never fail to impress with your WEAK-minded banter and DEPENDENCY on the most baseless reasoning and junk science known to man.
I tried listening to her show on Sirius but she uses far too much of the “eff” word. Occasionally is no big deal but she seems to be trying to emulate Howard Stern or something and I don’t even think he uses it that much.
Me too, does she ever think of something she DOESN’T say?
That’s funny.
stfu Jenny
I’m so bitter she married a member of NKOTB. At least it was Donnie and not Jordan! 12 year old me would have been so bitter.
LOL
Unfortunately, my favourite was Donnie back then. I am so disappointed in him. 😉
Yes, he unfortunately fell for her bs…..for Jenny, I think it’s ALL about $$ and he has some, and her career isn’t that hot, you know? So she’s happy to give it all up because soon, there won’t be much left of her career….she’s really all about finding a guy who will trade his $$ for her, gag. She is quite sickening, and always has been. I’m VERY disappointed that Donnie has gone here.
I’m so tired, so tired of being admired.
They should’ve made a post about you instead. All I know about Jenny is her horrible contribution to the anti-vaccine movement. And dammit, I wanted to like her so badly.
Not me, Madeline Kahn. What Jenny said made me think of that bit in the Mel Brook’s movie.
Tired of love, uninspired.
+1, thanks for getting it.
I am so tired of being an independent woman too. I think I will become a Dwarf Cassowary. But not an independent one, like a semi-dependent Dwarf Cassowary. Professionally, I will go by D. Cass and hyphenate the “O’Wary” when I am accepting awards.
So utterly refreshing!
😉
I’m all for it if it means her man will make her STFU about the anti-vax nonsense.
Maybe you could take a vaccine for it, Jenny.
I took my husband’s last name because I wanted us to have the same last name. We thought about using mine, but decided on his. I am strong and independent and a feminist. I do not see that the two are mutually exclusive. So thanks, Jenny, you idiot, for suggesting that taking your husband’s name is surrendering your identity, strength and independence. I guess I’ll go refresh my lipstick and put on a dress before my husband gets home for his cocktail, which I will have ready, of course, being that I’m from the 1950s now. A$$hat.
Yeah that pissed me off. I still haven’t changed mine other than on facebook (I have some paper work to fill out, but have to do part in person and their hours are not meshing with mine). I’m going to hyphenate and be one of ‘those people’. I love my name, and I personally want to hang on to it. I don’t think that makes me any better/worse than anyone else. I have gotten the “but won’t it bother your husband that you’re not just taking his name?” and quite honestly, if me hyphenating was something that would hurt him or inconvenience him somehow, I’m not sure I’d have married him. At work I still go by my maiden name, and probably will continue to for the most part, even with the change.
His last name is much more difficult to spell/pronounce because the spelling throws people off. I don’t need clients tripping over themselves to send me an email or ask for me on the phone. I hyphenate sometimes on emails to clients, and one lady called in and left a vm and said my maiden name and was trying to say the hyphenated name and was just like “co..- col…? cal…? Erinn, I’m so sorry I’m not sure how to pronounce it, could you give me a call back when you have a chance?”
Likely, our kids will have his name, for simplicity sake. It annoys me beyond belief that I do get weird looks or comments for hyphenating – as if I’m purposely trying to be snooty, or purposely trying to slight my husband. No – I’m just joining up our family names because I LIKE it. I have no issue whatever with women who take their husbands names, or men who take their wives names. It’s lovely, and a personal decision which really shouldn’t annoy anyone else and I hate that she phrased things the way she did. The kind of judging attitude that people give over it is so dumb. Jenny – like always – needs to stfu.
Right? I just slipped the pot roast in the oven. I took my husband’s last name after we married. I never really identified myself with it until we had a baby. Then I started using it.
GNAT, make sure to mop the floor in heels.
..and be extra-joyful during Christmas because Christmas is the joy of the Lord. Don’t let anyone steal that joy because it’s important for your husband and children to see you expressing that joy and cooking and cleaning in a joyful manner because, JOY.
You heathen. Go back to the old Moore article and get yourself some sermons.They are probably still going on.
Oh, I didn’t forget any of it. Kirk Cameron is my role model for womanly perfection. I’m just a little ball of joy, as you have probably noticed from time to time.
@Kiddo: I mop the floor barefoot while being on my knees – this way I can praise my husband and the lord at the same time and show my modesty. And clean of course, because that is what I was born to do.
Don’t forget his slippers at the door and a scotch in his glass:-)
I took my husband’s last name because I hated my maiden name. And it’s not hard – you check a box on your marriage license and voila! It’s not even that hard of you wait oe you choose to hyphenate, you just have to make the time to go in front of the judge. As usual, I don’t know what Jenny McCarthy is talking about.
@Goodnames I was coming here to say that, but probably not as well, so I will just second it.
Just make the decisions that are right for your life as a woman and STFU. And the most annoying part is that in 6months when she’s bad-mouthing him and accusing him of dumping her son, she’ll be back to being a caricature of an ‘independent’ woman, whatever the f*** that means.
There was a time when she said her son was cured from Autism, then she publicly made comments about how Jim dumped her son. Now she’s saying this crap. You’re right, she’s perpetually dating, which is a huge turn off for me and probably confusing for her son.
She has a big mouth. I’m ok if someone opens their mouth even if I don’t agree with it. I however have a huge problem with someone who opens it up just to say sh*t. She’s ignorant, uninformed and absurd.
I for one had a picture of her hung right up there with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Eleanore Roosevelt and Cher. Now I’ll have to take it down and switch it to “Jenny ‘not strong, can’t DMV, fart joke’ Walberg.
Is she still on the view?
No, I think she and Sheri resigned a while ago.
They were both FIRED.
Ugh. That reminds me of what happened between wawa and Star. And when Star came back to visit and wawa was all “We were thinking of you”-crap.
When exactly was she single? Was it when she moved to Chicago to give her son stability and then immediately dragged him to NY for her failed stint on The View? There might have been a millisecond there when she wasn’t dating. Jenny McCarthy is one of those people who think that they are really, really smart, but in fact they are just really, really, opinionated idiots. I hold her personally responsible for giving tha anti- vaccine garbage such a loud voice. She can try to back peddle all ahe wants, but there’s plenty of evidence of her stupidity in interviews from the last ten years, She wrote one version of her marriage ending in her books and now on her show, she’s changed her storey completely. She’s full of it.
She is the one who started that vaccines cause Autism and pissed off all doctors, isn’t she? Look what’s happening now, whooping cough and Measles are back and spreading. Shut up woman, who cares!
Yep.You are right.Friends of mine stopped giving there children vaccinations because of her.
It’s unbelievable how much influence she had. Just think about that. People stopped VACCINATING their kids because a PLAYBOY BUNNY told them it was bad. Good Lord.
She didn’t start the false autism-vaccination link, but she helped publicize it, long after it had been been debunked. And a friend’s autistic nephew was started on a gluten free diet at age 5, not because his doctor recommended it, but because McCarthy had mentioned the diet.
I’m so tired of shoveling snow. Been shoveling intermittently since 6 AM this morning and still haven’t uncovered my car. Not feeling your pain, Jenny.
We’re getting more on Thursday and right now they’re forecasting a plowable snow storm for Sunday night into Monday.
Where in HELL are we supposed to put the snow?
Also, my shoulders and legs are on fire from shoveling out my car yesterday.
Shoveling the snow is the only thing I don’t miss about Massachusetts. Today in Kissimmee Fl it’s sunny 60s. Wish I just lived here in the winter. Hope it gets better for you guys soon. My boyfriend is there now. I hope he’s not buried and frozen
Thanks, Maeliz. I’m jealous.
Also, just saw that they said Boston could get two more feet of snow in the next 10 days. We are SO. F*CKED. if that happens.
Oh yeah, I can relate. I’m in Chicago and we’ve had so much snow that the stores’ parking lot a few blocks down has a mountain a dozen feet high. It makes me want to be a kid again. I’d put a snow suit on and climb to the top if I could. We’re getting more tonight and tomorrow. Unfortunately, the snow mountain is the only exciting result of the difficult weather. Almost everyone I know is dealing with muscle pain.
While we haven’t had any significant snow at this point, I feel for you. Stay warm and maybe have some hot chocolate and bailey’s after shoveling!
I’m with you Lilac…so.over.it. And the snow banks are over my head already so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this next batch.
I just came on here to say that I loathe Jenny McCarthy for all the death and suffering she’s caused by spreading her ignorance. There are literally kids with leukemia who are now at risk of dying from measles after going through chemo and people in the developing world who can’t afford to vaccinate themselves because of her idiocy. She’s a monster.
Think you nailed it when you said she sounds like a vapid fool…always has, always will.
But it’s acknowledged this is her choice, and that she’s not pushing this ideology for all women by stating this is what we all should aspire to, yet she’s still branded a “vapid fool”. Hypocrisy much? This, coming from a site where people regularly condemn others for “slut-shaming” or “fat-shaming”? So what is this, “non-independence-minded-shaming”??
Because it’s not backed up by anything. If she bothered to research her claims and base it on actual science, that would be one thing. Its the same as walking around claiming the earth is flat. You’d be laughed out of the room.
Joan Rivers just turned to god, rolled her eyes and said “This bitch!” someday, the one synapse that is still hafl-heartedly firing in this sea urchin’s brain will splutter out-hope Donnie is ready.
LOL!!!!
I know in recent years she’s been saying she’s advocating for spacing the shots out more, which I agree with, not that she is saying doing away with them.
Her first marriage she was the breadwinner. Then she was alone and the breadwinner and mother. But all that time with Jim, come on, I’m sure he financially supported them as they lived together, and she raved about him as a supportive mate emotionally to her and her son. How quickly she forgets. They were together for five years.
She’s clinging to whatever she can. First it was “vaccines cause autism” then it was “green our vaccines” now its “just space out the shots more”.
” As for wanting to give up her independence… eh, I think she sounds like a vapid fool, but it’s her choice and she’s not saying that every woman needs to follow her lead. I wonder what she’ll say about it when she and Donnie split up?”
She’ll say he forced her to give up her independance and become a housewife and treated her like a “girl” instead of a “woman”. She drives me nuts. Why she gets hired for anything is beyond me. What is her talent? Spewing nonsense? Writing books about nonsense? She should just shut up for a while.
Does anyone really care what name she uses? Or anything about her at all?
She helped popularize this incredible stupid anti-vaccine movement, and contributed greatly to the health problems many are now facing. She needs to just shut up and go away.
Ugh. Somebody give this woman a vaccine to STFU.
Because when I think “strong and independent woman” I think Jenny McCarthy.
My partner left before our son was two. I worked two jobs, took in boarders and raised my son. He had only one parent and I believed he deserved his parent’s full attention, so chose no dating. Now, I’ve been alone for decades and you know what….I’m tired. I’ve supported myself 100% since I was 17. I would love, not so much to be taken care of, but to be part of a team effort. At 60, the likelihood of that happening is pretty low, which makes me sad. Never expected, never planned, never wanted to spend the greater part of my life alone. So in an odd way, I kind of get what she means.
I “get” it because although I am actually married (for now) with two sons, pretty much everything falls on me. He has a full-time job (as do I) but other than that, everything is done by me. All the freakin’ time. It does get tiring. I would love to have someone take care of me. But, I would want it to be because I allowed it, not because I was forced to. Some days, all I want is for someone else to make a decision.
My SO is a freelancer who works about 5-10 days a month, less during slow season. I’m a corporate drone who works 50-60 hour weeks, yet he’ll putter around all day then wait for me to get home to figure out dinner. I usually tell him I’m not hungry and suggest he scrounge up something. He’ll shrug after I ask why he didn’t grab/make something for himself. It’s not like he just moved out of his mom’s basement. We are in our mid-40s, together 6 years, and this exchange still happens regularly. What is it about having tits that makes women responsible for others’ nourishment?
I don’t get what’s so difficult about changing your name. There’s no “process.” Go to the Social Security office, fill out a name change card, and when your new SSC arrives go to the DMV and get a new license. Done & done. Maybe for her that’s too much effort since she can’t have an assistant take care of it for her.
And I’ve always been annoyed by her stance on vaccines and Autism. Especially after her claim that some special diet “cured” her son’s Autism. Wasn’t it revealed that he was actually misdiagnosed? Anyway, I just can’t with her. She talks a lot, and says nothing.
It is a PITA. You have to then change it on all your credit cards, etc. When you are working, it can be hard to squeeze those trips in if it is not a huge priority, so I can understand not getting around to it yet.
I hate to say it but these two lumpy heads are perfect for eachother!
Have none of these ridiculous female celebs heard of the humble brag? You’d think they’d be hep by now and check themselves, but no…..
She doesn’t bother me at all, and I actually like her more now that she’s with Donnie, he seems so sweet and if he’s with her she must be ok, right? It’s cute she wants to take his name, they seem happy and I hope it lasts!
I think it’s wrong she gets so much blame on the vaccine mess, she didn’t go around physically stopping people from getting vaccines, the parents made that decision alone. Yes she had a platform and said some ignorant things, but it blows my mind that people would listen to some random celebrity vs. doctors and proven science on a decision as serious as vaccinating their child.
I know my opinion isn’t popular, everyone hates her, lol.
Hey Jess – you’ve got company. I actually like her too. And about all the “crap” she says: I mean, she’s just talking. She’s not a politician or a preacher. People need to CHILL!
Whew, I was scared to come back yesterday and check the comments because I thought people would rip me a new one!
Has it been confirmed that she has ever done Botox? If so, I find it ironic that someone who is so anti-vaccine is all for shoving Botulinum toxin in their face.
Oh Jenny, Jenny, Jenny – you were and never will be a strong, independent woman. Get your facts straight.
She confuses being loud and crass with being strong. One is beligerant. The other is character proven over time against odds and proclaimed by others – not yourself! She and Goopy sure do like to praise themselves don’t they?
I chose to hyphenate after I got married. What’s funny though is that I usually just sign everything with my married last name because it sounds a lot better and I am too lazy! Haha!
I wish this broad would STFU.
She’s going to cling to Donnie like a freaking octopus.
Well of course she wants to play “housewife” now. After all, thanks to her stupid blubbering, she changed Disneyland to Measlesland.
Idiot porn star – that’s what she will always be to me!
Other things that tire Jenny McCarthy: a good sense of humor, natural breasts, and science.
Too bad she isn’t tired of being annoying!
She need to STFU. Please-go be Donnie’s housewife so we don’t have to hear about you anymore. And what’s up with this whole “I want to be the girl” thing? First of all, you’re 42-like it or not, you are no longer a girl. Secondly, I don’t like that she implies that you aren’t feminine if you chose to keep your maiden name. Tomorrow is my 10th anniversary-I didn’t change my name for various reasons and I don’t think that negates from my femininity.
Jenny is tired of hustling for dollars. Now she has a meal ticket.
Hey Jenny,
Instead of spending “the past few years trying to walk away from that association” (which I’ve noticed), why don’t you tell everyone you were wrong and urge them to vaccinate their kids?
We’ve got measles in my town now and I have a grandson who’s too young to be vaccinated, thanks!
I like her!