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Each week we take a look around our pop
culture world and try to find one moment that stood out as the most inspiring.
It might be a celebrity who is doing charitable things, a TV shows that
inspires us to be better or a philosophy that we should all strive to live by.
Here is this week's most inspiring pop culture moment.
Sometimes inspiration comes
from unlikely places. But on a recent conference call interview Jenny McCarthy,
the new host of the extreme dating show Love
in the Wild, talked about romance in the jungle and in every day life.
The Playboy Playmate turned bestselling author is almost as famous for her personal life as she is for her career accomplishments. A long-term relationship with a mega-star like Jim Carrey and writing a book like Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies and True Romance will do that do a girl. And since her high-profile split, she hasn’t been shy about looking for a new man.
But when it came to finding Love in the Wild herself, McCarthy used
her time in Dominican Republic for a far greater pursuit than romance —
spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan. She revealed, “I did go down
there for about four weeks. We shot pretty much every day we were there. I was
staying in a place that was secure and nice because I had my son with me the
entire time which I like to drag him everywhere I go, as a single mom I need
to.”
She continued, “It was one of
the most incredible experiences of both of our lives. Evan fell in love with
the island, I fell in love with the culture and I had a ball while working with
these little youngsters and was really happy at times I was me and they were
them. I did not want to go through some of the things they were going through
because we did put them through a lot not only with the adventures that were
terrifying but also to go through the catfights and to go through being dumped.
Who wants to go through that? So I found it entertaining but also educational.”
McCarthy seemed happy to be
out of the dating game for a bit and focus on production and emceeing the
reality show. But she’s since been linked to Chicago Bears linebacker Brian
Urlacher and by all accounts has been enjoying her budding romance.
So not surprisingly, the
author of the upcoming book Bad Habits:
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic, was happy to dole out some dating
advice based on her own experience. “While on this wonderful journey of dating
hell I've been on I would say I tell my girlfriends I've realized on your…
first few dates keep an eye on how your man treats the service industry, your
waitress, your waiter, the valet person. You can see someone bleed through, if
you know what I mean, if they're snappy or rude or not respectful to people
that are trying to help you out, I take that as a big red flag and that person
doesn't usually get a second date. That's a quick tip.”
She continued, “And then if
you make it to that two weeks or a month when you're dating then the next
litmus test is to go on a weekend trip away somewhere. Spending at least three
days somewhere you can again see true self even if it comes out for five
minutes somewhere in those three days. So that's usually how I keep going or
end it immediately and it seems to have done me well like I'm getting rid of
the bad guys quick that way.”
Words of wisdom from someone who
has been through the dating firestorm. See if anyone falls in Love in the Wild when the show returns
on June 5 at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. Central on NBC.
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