Jenny McCarthy has revealed she has changed her name to her married name, Jenny McCarthy. Since marrying Donnie Wahlberg in 2014, she has continued to use McCarthy as her professional name.
The couple stopped by The Wendy Williams Show this week in an episode that aired March 17, and McCarthy explained why it was important for her to change her last name.
"In my first marriage, I was so like, miss independent,” she told Williams. “I was like, I worked for this name, I'm not changing it. And then, you know, as time went on, I was tired of being, like, the man and the woman. I was a single mom for so long and I fell in love with him."
When Williams pointed out she still uses McCarthy on her SiriusXM radio show The Jenny McCarthy Show, she replied that she wanted to wait to reveal her name change when the new season of their reality show Donnie and Jenny premiered.
“To actually see her name and my name together her license and know that she’s taken on my name - my wife who worked just as hard to make her name mean something in the world - it adds such another level of pride to me” Wahlberg said on their show, MailOnline reports.