Jenny McCarthy on having the talk with her son: he thought sex was like foot rubs
Jenny McCarthy’s Sirius XM hour-long weekly radio show, Dirty, Sexy, Funny premiered last night. When I first saw this article, I assumed Jenny shared this story on her talkshow, but that wasn’t the case. Jenny told this highly personal story to US Magazine about giving her son ‘the talk.’ She said that the subject came up when her son Evan, 12, saw a viral video of a woman giving birth (I think it’s this video, the key part around 6:30 is censored). Evan had a lot of questions and she had to clear up some misconceptions she’d given him.
When asked about her most recent parenting milestones, Donnie Wahlberg’s fiancée admitted: “I just had the birds and the bees talk.” The irreverent blonde went on to say it all happened after her son watched a viral video of a woman giving birth.
“He watched that recent video of that dad driving his wife to the hospital who was going to have a baby … She’s screaming bloody murder and he was like, ‘What’s going on? What’s going on?’ And I’m like, ‘This woman is having a baby.’ And he was so tortured by it that I had to sit down and give him the birds and the bees talk,” the Singled Out hostess recalled.
The talk couldn’t have waited much longer. “I kind of knew it was time because I accidentally told him … that sex was like feet rubs,” McCarthy explained. “And I looked on his iPad and there were 2,000 pics of foot rubs and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, he’s going to have a foot fetish for the rest of his life!’ So I just sat down and had the real heart-to-heart talk with him.”
The former MTV host, who is set to wed Blue Bloods star Wahlberg “soon,” admitted “it was difficult … but being the kind of single mom I’ve been, I’ve had to wear two hats and I’m proud to say that Evan will never be having sex for the rest of his life after my conversation,” she laughed.
So what exactly did she divulge to her son?
“I talked about kind of the physical part. I’m like, ‘You know how you’re talking about things happening?’ I’m like, ‘This is what your body is going to want to do and it’s normal but your body can’t yet because you’re too young,’ and he was horrified,” McCarthy said, “which is exactly what I wanted him to be but I can’t even imagine.”
The loving mom added she simply just wants her son to “always want that open discussion,” and to know “he can come to me with whatever he wants always and I will never get mad at him.”
I don’t think 12 is too young to explain things to a kid. They’re going to hear about it and it’s better that you explain it to them, and that they know they can talk to you about it. What bothers me about this story is the fact that her son has an iPad with which he’s doing things she doesn’t know about. It sounds like she just lets her son use an iPad whenever, although she may have restrictions set on it. Given what she’s said about her son being able to “find worse things on the Internet” than just nude photos of her, I doubt it. You want to trust your kids but it takes 5 seconds to google, so I think it’s better to set it up so they’re safe. (Netnanny is good for personal computers.)
Also, this story is potentially mortifying to her son! Evan is going to really start googling soon, and he’ll realize that his mom told everyone he thought sex was like foot rubs. I wouldn’t even put something like that on Facebook because I think it’s too personal, but Jenny is famous because of her brash personality. She has different standards for TMI. I’m sure this isn’t the most embarrassing thing she’s done to her kid this week.
Photos are from 2-20-14 (with Evan at an event), 12-1-13 (with Donnie Wahlberg) and 4-29-12 (out with Evan). Credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet
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