Growing up, Jenny McCarthy was often outshone in the classroom and on the athletic field by her three sisters. By the time she was 23, however, she was one of the most recognizable faces in America.

On the heels of a Playboy layout that led to her being named Playmate of the Year in 1994, McCarthy shot to stardom on MTV's dating game show Singled Out. But what goes up inevitably crashes, as chronicled in this wild-ride episode Jenny McCarthy: The E! True Hollywood Story.

McCarthy's glee at manhandling Singled Out contestants and her willingness to go over the top for a laugh only made fans love her more. Soon, her face was on magazine covers everywhere--one publication even had a weekly ""Jenny Hot Meter"" to track her fame. That's not bad for a former deli waitress from the south side of Chicago.

Her dizzying rise continued with a starring role in the NBC sitcom Jenny, but it lasted only a handful of episodes, and soon her name was being followed with phrases like ""flavor of the month""

Jenny McCarthy

American Idol

Laci Peterson

Cher

Courtney Love

Janet Jackson

JonBenet Ramsey

The Douglas Dynasty

Keanu Reeves

Kobe Bryant

Johnny Depp

Heather Mills McCartney

Profile of Lisa Marie Presley, Moon Unit and Diva Zappa, Kelly Osbourne, and other daughters of famous rock stars.

Rock Star Daughters

Richard Gere

Katie Couric

Ellen DeGeneres achieves a sucessful career as a stand-up comic, actress, and a talk show host.

Ellen DeGeneres

Pam Anderson

Sharon Stone

Mark Wahlberg

Missy Elliott

Birth Name: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger   Birthdate: July 30, 1947   Birthplace: Thal, Styria, Austria   Occupations: Bodybuilder, actor, politician   Quote: ""Pumping up in a gym and having a good workout is maybe the same thing as having sex.""   Claim to Fame: Journey from small beginnings to multiple worldwide successes

Significant Other(s):   Wife: Maria Shriver; married April 26, 1986   Also Dated: Barbara Outland

Family:   Father: Gustav Schwarzenegger, police chief   Mother: Aurelia Schwarzenegger, homemaker   Brother: Meinhard   Daughter: Katherine Eunice; born Dec., 13, 1989   Daughter: Christina Maria Aurelia; born July 23, 1991   Son: Patrick Arnold; born Sept. 18, 1993   Son: Christopher Sargent Shriver; born Sept. 27, 1997

Award(s):   Junior Mr. Europe (1965), Amateur Mr. Europe (1966), NABBA Amateur Mr. Universe (1966-1967), Mr. International (1968), NABBA Mr. Universe (1968-1970), IFBB Amateur Mr. Universe (1969), Mr. World (1970), Mr. Olympia (1970-1975, 1980)

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Arnold & Maria

This episode dicusses Lara's ex-show The Practice. And her rumours of being anarexic.

Lara Flynn Boyle

They're both blondes. They both married young and earned Oscar nominations young. They're Hollywood's power mother-daughter team, Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.

As this titillating Goldie and Kate: E! True Hollywood Story reveals, life has been kind to them both. Mama Hawn had success in television and films right from the start, and daughter Hudson rode her coattails to early notoriety.

But early on, Hawn worked as a dancer to pay the bills and eventually left her trail of broken marriages behind her as she made it to the top of Hollywood, becoming one of the movie industry's highest-paid entertainers.

Learn how she dealt with the death of her parents and how she witnessed one of her dear friends being struck by a car in front of her eyes. Hear also, from friends and loved ones, how she managed to raise her three kids, all while starring in and producing movies.

And, like her mother, Hudson has broken a few hearts in her day. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be as glamorous,

Goldie Hawn & Kate Hudson

The child actress turned party girl. Tara dated MTV's Carson Daly. She starred in 2 American Pie movies.

Tara Reid

The hit boy band had many hit albums.

Members: JC, Lance, Chris, Joey, Justin:   Justin Timberlake, born 1981   JC Chasez, born 1976   Lance Bass, born 1979   Chris Kirkpatrick, born 1971   Joey Fatone, born 1977

'N Sync

Daryl Hannah was born in 1960. Has many hit movies. And also went out with JFK jr.

Daryl Hannah

This one talks about the harships & struggles that models go through.

Supermodels: Beyond Skin Deep

Birth Name: Uma Karuna Thurman   Birthdate: Apr. 29, 1970   Birthplace: Boston   Occupation: Actress   Quote: ""That's definitely what thrills me--to keep myself guessing and to keep trying new things. And you know there's no end to what you can do if you try, right?""   Claim to Fame: Sexy ingenue

Significant Other(s):   Husband: Ethan Hawke, actor; married May 1, 1998; filed for divorce   Husband: Gary Oldman, actor; married Sept. 1990; divorced March 1992   Phil Joanou   John Cusack   Timothy Hutton   AndrÃ© Balazs

Family:   Father: Robert Thurman, university professor   Mother: Nena Holmquist, model, psychotherapist   Brother: Ganden   Brother: Dechen   Brother: Mipam   Daughter: Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke; born July 8, 1998, with Hawke   Son: Levon Roan Thurman; born Jan. 15, 2002, with Hawke

Education:   Professional Children's School

Uma Thurman

In March 2002, a show about a bachelor searching for love among 25 women crept onto the ABC airwaves. At the time, it received little fanfare.

Now it is one of ABC's highest rated shows.

The Bachelor

Missing-persons advocate John Walsh showcased Laci's disappearance on America's Most Wanted and urged Scott Peterson to appear on the show. Peterson refused.

â€¢ Television movies have been made about both Walsh's and Peterson's family tragedies. Walsh was portrayed by Hill Street Blues captain Daniel J. Travanti in Adam, while Peterson was played by former Lois & Clark star Dean Cain in Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story.

â€¢ Several weeks into the search for Laci, Scott contacted a realtor to inquire about selling their house and sold his wife's Land Rover, claiming it brought him bad memories and that he needed a truck for work.

â€¢ Police placed a global positioning system (GPS) in his new truck to follow his every move.

â€¢ Laci's case was reclassified from a missing-persons case to a homicide case before detectives ever found her body.

â€¢ Detectives found Laci and the body of her unborn child in February 2003. The remains had washed ashore on a waterfront near Berkeley, California,

Born 15 monts apart Venus & Serena talk about there late sister and there tennis sucsess.

The Williams Sisters

Call them celebutantes, a new category of star created by the 21st century's first crop of filthy-rich social climbers. As wealthy young women and celebrity wannabes, these daring debutantes and outrageous heiresses have plenty of money, but still want to steal the scene.

Trust Fund Babies

Kennedy's Power, Seduction and Hollywood Pt. 1

Kennedy's Power, Seduction and Hollywood Pt. 2

Kennedy's Power, Seduction and Hollywood Pt. 3

E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.

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