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FINALLY FREE TWO PREVIOUS CONTRACT DEALS KEPT JENNY MCCARTHY'S CAREER IN A HOLDING PATTERN, BUT NOW THIS FORCE OF NATURE IS UNBOUND AND TAKING THE WORLD BY STORM. BY PAIGE WISER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT ASCROFT K nown for her outrageous wit, blonde good looks, and plenti- ful paramours, Jenny McCarthy is a hometown girl who is serious about her career and her role as a mother. In many ways Jenny McCarthy is your typical Midwest suburban mom. While chatting in preparation for this story, she was hosting a play date for her 10-year-old son, Evan, and his horde of friends. "I don't think the frogs are here yet, guys!" she shouts. If McCarthy has learned one thing from a career in show business, it's how to entertain a crowd. "I ordered all the frogs in the whole store," explains McCarthy. "Unfortunately, there was only one fat bullfrog named Pac-Man, and we're getting him. The rest are two-inch tadpoles." But McCarthy is different than the other neighborhood mothers. Let's address the bullfrog in the room: Not many moms have just graced their sixth cover of Playboy magazine, months before turning 40, which she will do on November 1. Isn't she bored with being a bombshell? "Hell no!" she says. "I hope I'm 60 and people are still saying it. I do want people to know there's more, but, yes, I want the 'honk-honk' when you pass me." McCarthy is able to toot her own horn, freely. Finally out of the TV-development deals that went nowhere and hung around her neck like Jacob Marley's chains, her career is unfettered and back in high gear. "A lot of people don't understand why I haven't been on TV," she says. "It's not because I don't want to! I've been locked up since I was 23."