Jenny McCarthy has a very interesting personality. Her vivacious charisma, snappy banter, and amusing facial expressions on MTV's "Singled Out", a modern version of "The Dating Game", made the seemingly stupid game show somehow captivating. The twenty-six-year old, former Playboy centerfold, has such a profound perkiness, that Hollywood producers inundated her with proposals for game shows, sitcoms, and talk shows. Not too many years ago, back in 1992, Jenny was struggling to scrape together enough money to continue with her second year of nursing studies at Southern Illinois University. As a result of a lack of finances, Jenny decided to pursue a modeling career. To her dismay, she was told that her body was too "curvy." What Jenny realized at first, was that Playboy prefers full-figured women over waifs. They also encouraged hand-delivered photographs of herself to the magazine's Chicago office. The editors were very impressed with what they saw, and paid McCarthy ,000 to pose as Miss October 1993. She became "Playmate of the Year" a couple of months later, and received 0,000 in cash and prizes. Now that Jenny was officially a "babe," she decided to move away from her home in Chicago. She had grown up there, with three sisters, her mom who stayed home, and her father, a steel-plant foreman. Her plan was to go to Los Angeles in search of stardom. Finding the right auditions in Hollywood turned out to be extremely difficult. It took persistent badgering from Ray Manzella, McCarthy's manager and boyfriend, to finally get an interview at MTV. MTV's network producer liked what he saw, and chose to hire Jenny as a CO-host for their new show "Singled Out," which would debut in 1995. The funny and beautiful "babe" proved tough enough to control the fifty testosterone-powerhouse contestants without bodily injury. Jenny became an immediate success. MTV did not want to lose their new star, and agreed on a one-year contract that would pay Jenny 0,000. They promoted McCarthy to full-fledged VJ and gave her free will to create a program of any format that would suit her talents. Jenny subsequently abandoned her responsibility of hosting "Singled Out" in order to concentrate on creating a new MTV series, "The Jenny McCarthy Show." She said once that it's "kind of like 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' on acid"). She also developed a sitcom for NBC called "Jenny". The show was supposed to portray an East Coast grocery clerk who inherits a Hollywood mansion. Around that same time, Playboy wished to reinstate their relationship with Jenny McCarthy, offering her 0,000 for some more nude shots. When Jenny declined their offer, she said that wasn't the direction she was presently pursuing, and the magazine settled for reissuing old pictures again. Although she also declined proposals from Fox and NBC, McCarthy is nonetheless venturing beyond teen-oriented cable channels and gentlemen's magazines. She appeared as a "blonde nurse" in Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) and, later, portrayed her first substantive screen character (a neurotic movie star) in The Stupids (1996), opposite Tom Arnold. It seems Jenny is heeding and exceeding advice that her mother gave years ago: "Be like Vanna White."