Remember when that mean old critic, Rex Reed, was trashing Melissa McCarthy’s hit comedy, Identity Theif, with derogatory references to her size? That was earlier this year, and Melissa’s cousin, the now less-famous and less-relevant Jenny McCarthy, defended her. Jenny called her cousin talented and told Rex to “go to hell,” basically. Melissa is the big star now and Jenny is the aging sexpot, clawing for relevancy (it’s true!). A few years back Jenny was the hot one, though, and if you believe Star (and why would they bother to make this up), she was a bitch to her cousin back then, told her to lose weight, and didn’t help her out at all. So now that Jenny has a struggling VH1 talk show and needs acting jobs, Melissa is conveniently ignoring her pleas.
Spies say the cousins are feuding over Melissa’s refusal to help Jenny reboot her sagging career. But the Mike & Molly star feels that what goes around comes around. “In the 90s, Jenny’s career was doing well, but she barely helped Melissa get acting gigs,” said a family insider. “Jenny told her she wouldn’t make it because of her weight.” Now the tables have turned, as Jenny struggles to keep her eponymous VH1 talk show afloat; she badly wanted a cameo in Melissa’s new movie The Heat. “But Melissa hasn’t forgiven Jenny for refusing to help her and calling her fat,” explains the insider
[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 10, 2013]
I believe this. Jenny seems like the catty type to me. This reminds me that The Heat is coming out soon! It’s out on June 28. That movie looks hysterical, I can’t wait. Oh and I just saw an ad on imdb for Identity Thief, that’s out on DVD June 4. It got mixed reviews, but it looks funny and I’d like to see that one too.
So Melissa McCarthy has hit movies she headlines along with a hit TV show, while Jenny McCarthy has a bizarre VH1 talkshow with guests that include Carson Kressley, Brande Roderick and Jacqueline Laurita. If Jenny did say those things to her cousin, I would say that karma is a bitch but that’s not the case. It’s about talent, and Jenny’s peaked in the 90s when it was still novel to fart and act sexy at the same time.
Melissa McCarthy is shown on April 18 at CinemaCon. Jenny McCarthy is shown on May 28 and May 19. Credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet
When will people learn that there is more than big blonde hair, T&A and acting vapid?
Good for Melissa, yeah she’s a big girl and a nice and funny one. Personality, perseverance and talent will always win sooner or later.
Suck it up Jenny, starvation wages should work for you – we wouldn’t want you to get fat!
OMG! Your last line! BURRRRN!
I agree that if one chooses to bank solely on their good looks as a primary source of income, they had better make sure they have an exit plan.
Women like JM only help perpetuate misogyny within the media. Acting like a “dumb ho” for the sake of a leering audience of horny dudes is not empowering.
I don’t know if JM is acting when it comes to the “dumb ho” part…….
Melissa is somewhat funny and i dont support the sick skinny Hollyweird promotes but lets be honest, for her age, she is at an unhealthy weight. If she wasnt the weight she is she wouldnt be famous- part of her shtick is her weight. I think promoting bad eating habits leading to diabetes, heart disease, etc is just as bad as promoting anorexia.
I have a celeb friend whose relatives constantly beg him to put them in his movies & get them roles & then when he cant, because movie exes dont want the relative, they blame him. So if this was same thing with Jenny & Melissa, its not Jennys fault. I think Jenny had a hard enough time getting roles herself let alone her relatives.
I agree that her weight is not healthy for her. I don’t think anyone is suggesting it is.
However, I disagree that her comedy is largely based upon her weight. While Mike and Molly is certainly about two overweight people, I’ve seen her in Bridesmaids and Hangover 3. Bridesmaids was not a “fat” character. She was more masculine than anything and the funniest part of a movie I didn’t really enjoy otherwise. In Hangover, she was again, the funniest part of the whole movie, a female version of Zach G’s character. Weight was not a part of the character at all.
If anyone is pigeonholing her into “fat” comedy, it is more likely the people with the money than her.
I believe it. I bet Jenny is so envious of Melissa she can’t see straight. Melissa just seems like a better human being, and is deserving of all her success.
I love Melissa and think Jenny is a self-righteous pill, but I don’t buy it. Melissa’s very first screen credit was an appearance on Jenny’s TV show. This seems like unsourced speculation based on their respective career trajectories — might sound plausible, but given the historical record I really doubt it.
I don’t buy it either and think they’re both wildly overrated.
This is probably wrong.Jenny may not be doing much acting wise, but she’s written 7 books, and is on a bunch of autism panels. Plus if her ex-castmate Heather Paige Kent could become a Real Housewife, Jenny could have too.
Looks fade, talent sticks… Love it when you see karma in action.
I believe this as well. They do not seem close at all. I love Melissa McCarthy.
Jenny has kept quiet about her relationship with Melissa and vice versa. It’s obvious something isn’t quite right.
Well, I can see why MM would distance herself from JM.
Jenny comes across as crazy and she’s not even funny. Her brand of “humor” is really no more inspiring than a Family Guy porn parody. Giggity!
What a hot blonde gets away with at 22, they can not get away with at 32. Much less at 42!
A big mouth girl, with no manners… does not float at 40. No matter how big your boobs might be.
Jenny reminds me of Pamela Anderson. They were never really interested in being a working actor, learning the craft.
So now in their 40’s, they are a decade past their expiration date. With little talent. And no one to pay their bills.
Neither one of them realize that they need to find that man, with the huge income, by 33. And get it locked down.
And Melissa does not owe Jenny anything. Melissa seems to have constantly worked for the last 20 years. And it has paid off for her.
That’s an unfair comparison to Pam, I think Pam is 100 better at her craft and looks. Pam also knows when to keep her mouth shut.
I agree completely with this!
However, I am not sure I buy that there is some feud going on. I would chalk the silence up to respect for the notion that it’s tacky to namedrop in attempt to ride someone else’ coattails through Hollywood. Of course many do, but MM seems to be determined to do it on her own while JM is probably aware of the consequences if she tries it.
Also Pam is known as a genuinely nice person unlike Jenny
So women need to lock down a man by 40 to support them?! I think Oprah, Halle, Madonna and on and on would beg to differ with you.
.. . a certain type of woman
Jenny was never on Melissa’s level even at her peak of fame. She was always too try hard and too focused on being “sexy.”
Melissa looks great in these pictures!
There’s room for everyone.
What career did Jenny have? The star of Jim Carrey’s bedroom? Never did figure out what happened there? Jenny is an aging blonde with fake boobs like so many other. I love Melissa & didn’t realize they were related until recently.
Jenny has always been cringe worthy with her double entendres. Not funny, tries way too hard. And her ludicrous campaign regarding autism was a joke. She is too stupid to be an asset to any cause.
I’ve adored Melissa since her Gilmore days, I think she’s so talented and funny, and am so happy for her success. Jenny, on the other hand, was solely about her looks, and look where that got her.
They’ve never seemed close as far as I could tell, so this isn’t really surprising if true.
Jenny McCarthy was never funny, she was so obnoxious it hurt. She needs to go away, there’s no coming back for her.
In reference to the Rex Reed review, wasn’t he slamming the movie BECAUSE all the jokes were at the expense of the “fat” character? I did not see it as an attack on her fatness but an attack on a movie that couldn’t or didn’t bother to use her comedic abilities for anything further than fat jokes.
Here’s the review.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rex-reed-defends-melissa-mccarthy-421352
If he had been criticizing the movie for making fat jokes, that might have actually been a good thing. But that is not what he’s doing. Not at all.
Sookie St James is awesome. Always was.
I had no idea they were cousins. Love Melissa, very funny gal!
Melissa McCarthy has talent, but she is usually over-the-top , over-bearing, and annoying to me. Plus, most of her acting roles play up to the fatty and sloppy stereotypes ( she did repeatedly on SNL ) . I hear ” The Heat ” is pretty funny, but the film’s trailers reveal another obnoxious McCarthy performance.
+1
This is exactly what Rex Reed said in the review. In a nutshell.
+1
Jenny McCarthy influenced a lot of parents not to vaccinate their kids. That’s why she’s an evil bitch and she needs to go away!
Melissa’s IT movie was funny. I don’t think there was a lot of fat jokes at her expense.The movie was funny, I would not have liked the movie if it was full of fat jokes.
When Jenny decided that vaccines were to blame for everything bad in the world, that’s when her star began to dim. Her self righteousness was enough to turn ANYONE off, big boobs or not.
I liked Melissa so much on Gilmore Girls. And I’ve wanted to like her in movies, but she is getting pretty one note playing on the fatty. Wish she would branch out and do something serious.
As for Jenny, she is friends with Chelsea Handler, so that says alot, so I believe that she has mean-girl ways. Anybody who hangs with Chelsea has to have a extra-catty, puts other women down, side to them (this goes for Jennifer A., Reese too, I believe it of them also).