Playboy vet Jenny McCarthy defends 'toxic' breast implants amid horror battle with mold sickness

Jenny McCarthy is standing by her decision to keep her breast implants amid her lengthy battle with mold sickness.

'You know I'm toxic-phobic, a lot of people make fun of me like, "Oh, but you've got implants,"' McCarthy, 54, said on a new episode of her podcast, The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show, while speaking to her own plastic surgeon, Dr. Terry Dubrow.

'Yeah, touché. You are correct. That is one thing that I maybe someday when I'm an old lady, will want to be a free bird, but in this time of having to be in these dresses and stuff like that. I mean, I went down dramatically, much smaller where I used to be,' she said.

'But I am not ready for zucchini titties,' McCarthy added, 'I'm just not there yet.'

The Playboy vet has Motiva breast implants, which were approved by the FDA in 2024. They are a softer alternative to silicone implants, designed for more natural movement.

'Terry's been doing my boobs for a very, very long time,' McCarthy explained, sharing he did her first reduction in the early 2000's, followed by multiple other surgeries, including a lift.

During the interview Dubrow noted that he did not believe her implants had anything to do with her mold poisoning diagnosis and that her last pair of implants looked 'fine' when he took them out and had no signs of mold. 

McCarthy also reflected on her first boob job and how her surgeon decided to give her a bigger size than what she had asked for. 

'Back when I was, I think, 19 or 20, the girls in my neighborhood were getting this deal. They're like, "There's a doctor that's doing boob jobs for $1,500 in Arizona, and all their boobs look great." So, I was like, "Oh, get me on a plane." Charged my credit card.'

'I realized it was because you're not really going under anesthesia, right, during the surgery. So, I was awake. It was on top of the muscle,' she went on.

'It was totally crazy. So, I woke up from that surgery, and I'm only telling you this part of the story because so many women can relate. This is back in the 90s. I woke up and said, "Um, you gave me way bigger than I asked for."'

'And I can't tell you how many women back then said they woke up and said, "What's this?" And the doctor said the same thing. "I made them bigger so you don't have to come back later 'cause you want them bigger."'

'Thousands and thousands and thousands of women when I've told that story said the same thing. So now everybody I knew then went in and got a reduction.'

The interview comes after McCarthy announced last month that she is sleeping in a tent as she detoxes from a bout of mold poisoning she was diagnosed with last December.

The View alumna claimed she fell ill because of time spent in a 'very, very old' dressing room with 'air conditioning from like 1950.'

She stated that she suffered a battery of symptoms, including cysts called chalazions that formed on one of her eyelids and required surgical intervention, as well as a root canal infection that culminated in the loss of multiple teeth.

McCarthy added that she developed rashes, swelling, insomnia and food allergies, as well as eventually small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), on her podcast.

Although she and her husband Donnie Wahlberg paid tens of thousands of dollars to have a 'specialist' perform mold remediation on their home, she confessed she has become 'paranoid now about basically sleeping anywhere' and has moved into a tent.

Clarifying she was 'not even joking,' the onetime Playboy Playmate ran a video in which she showed her fans her new residence, apparently set up in her backyard.

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for McCarthy for comment.

She noted the tent had a rainproof cover, explaining: 'I don't have to worry about rain in California, but I do worry about chemtrails and also sprinklers.'

Now in the midst of 'month seven of detox,' McCarthy remains 'too paranoid to, honestly, to freaking live anywhere else other than a tent,' she said.

'That's where this journey has brought me. After all those surgeries, after being diagnosed with mycotoxin poisoning, I feel a little bit sometimes crazy and like the walls are caving in and paranoid. It's really, really hard.'

She noted: 'And they talk about people with mold poisoning having PTSD. I'm still in the traumatic part. I'm not even in the "post" part yet, because I feel like now everything is mold. I can detect mold, honestly, like a mold dog.'

While discussing her eyelid growths, she said she 'always felt bad for Donnie,' thinking: 'How do you have sex with someone that looks like this?'

According to McCarthy, the dressing room where she was first exposed to the mold had an ancient, cobwebbed air conditioning unit with filters she was 'sure they didn't clean.'

The John Tucker Must Die actress insisted that 'my makeup artist, who only works on me in that dressing room, also wound up getting mold poisoning. Go figure.'

One early sign of her own sickness, McCarthy said, was an infected root canal, resulting in swelling that 'looked like a hot air balloon blew up in my gum.'

McCarthy, who serves as a judge on The Masked Singer, recounted the experience of soldiering through the show's filming process and 'trying to put hair in front of my face,' which was 'getting bigger and bigger and bigger' by that stage.

'And I'm in so much pain, so of course I'm popping painkillers. I'm like: "I'm gonna turn into Anna Nicole Smith on this show." But I didn't care. I was in so much pain.'

As her health deteriorated, McCarthy recalled losing multiple teeth and repeatedly undergoing surgery in an attempt to manage her symptoms.

The chalazions left her 'feeling so ugly' that she acquired a habit of constantly wearing sunglasses both on her Instagram page and on red carpets, where photographers urged her to remove the shades and she flatly replied: 'Um, no.'

One month before her new podcast episode dropped, McCarthy and Wahlberg put their home in the tony Chicago suburb St Charles on the market for $2.799 million.

The move came 11 years after they first acquired the four-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom property for the sum of $1.1 million, according to Realtor.

McCarthy's views on medical matters have been an explosively controversial topic for decades because of her public stance on inoculation.

She has maintained her son Evan, 24, whom she had with her first husband John Asher, developed autism because of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

McCarthy has disputed the popular description of her as 'anti-vaccine,' insisting she has 'never told anyone to not vaccinate' but wanted to 'question the "one size fits all" philosophy of the recommended vaccine schedule,' via the Chicago Sun-Times.