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Jenny McCarthy Rocks Red Bikini, Kisses Donnie Wahlberg in Christmas Card
Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg’s annual holiday card is here — and they look hotter than ever.
“Happy Holidays! It’s here again,” Wahlberg, 56, wrote via Instagram on Friday, November 28. “Jenny and Donnie’s annual Formless Beauty Holiday Card! This year’s Palm Springs Christmas Doll Box photo comes with all holiday bundles!”
Wahlberg and McCarthy, 53, dressed up like dolls, posing in a life-size cardboard box.
Alongside the finished product, Wahlberg shared footage of the couple’s holiday card preparation. In the footage, he and McCarthy were bundled up in winter coats and hats in the snow. The camera then panned to another setup, where the pair traded their cozy gear for red-hot swimwear. While Wahlberg flexed his abs in his swim trunks, McCarthy sizzled in a barely-there two-piece.
For glam, McCarthy wore a Santa hat over her loose blonde waves. At the end of the video, McCarthy gave Wahlberg a sweet peck on the cheek.
McCarthy’s bikini-clad photo shoot comes amid her recent health scare.
“I’ve had nine surgeries this year on my mouth,” the Masked Singer panelist told People on Wednesday, November 26. “I had one infection that turned into another and another, and then I had these growths show up on my eyeballs.”
McCarthy’s health battle initially began after a failed ceramic dental implant.
“My teeth were falling out, implants falling out,” she recalled to the outlet. “They finally had to dig into my jawbone and chipped away, and found I had a deep bone infection. I’ve been on antibiotics for a year, and have had to eat soft foods only. Every time we thought it had cleared up, it came back again. I’d be in massive pain with my jaw swelling up, and at the same time I was getting these growths popping up on my eyeballs.”
According to McCarthy, she underwent “two more mouth surgeries” since she and Wahlberg filmed their holiday card.
In the holiday card, McCarthy flaunted a slimmer figure, telling People that she lost weight due to her condition. The former model has also battled Hashimoto’s Disease, a chronic autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid gland.
“I tried [following a] vegan [diet] and I almost died,” McCarthy said on a March episode of the “Heal Squad” podcast, noting that she hoped veganism would help her Hashimoto’s symptoms. “I became so ill. I was exhausted and fatigued. I was a mess. Some people work [and] heal better on a vegan diet and some people don’t. It’s what you believe and you have to follow your intuition and then also follow what your blood says or what your body says. Your body will let you know, by the way.”
McCarthy later tried a “full carnivore” diet.
“I’m like, ugh, OK. I’m from Chicago so I can handle it, but it just felt very low vibrational heavy for me,” she recalled at the time. “I was kind of a more eating salmon [type of person] and doing light things like this, but [I felt] I might as well give it a try; it was like my last resort diet. It has been f***ing incredible for me — and I stress for me.”