Jenny McCarthy can unfortunately add her name to the list of female celebrities whose nude photos were leaked online by an anonymous hacker. According to E! News, the 41-year-old former "The View" cohost is the latest celeb target after several explicit images of her surfaced on a 4chan thread Wednesday morning (Sept. 24).
Her rep confirmed that some of the photos were real, but claims the more graphic images do not belong to McCarthy.
"Certain photos claiming to be hacked photos of Jenny McCarthy and posted to various websites are not McCarthy at all, but someone else, including the most explicit nude photos," her rep said in a statement. "Other photos are stills from a comedy skit from her TV special, 'Dirty, Sexy, Funny.'"
"A small number of photos are of McCarthy that were stolen from her hacked phone account," the rep added. "McCarthy's representatives are reporting the theft to the FBI and contacting all websites posting the photos to demand the immediate removal of all personal and private photos of her, including nude photos."
It's not clear if the pictures have been removed from 4chan, but the site has been actively trying to stop people from reposting them due to an updated policy on copyright infringement. According to E!, Reddit administrators previously warned users to stop posting illegal content (specifically nude photos of celebrities that were taken when they were underage).
A large majority of the naked pictures were being posted to a subreddit thread, titled "The Fappening." Eventually the site completely deleted the thread. According to reports, the nude photos of McCarthy were taken before she started dating Donnie Wahlberg, to whom she is now married.
On Tuesday, racy and nude images of Sports Illustrated model Emily Ratajkowski and Victoria's Secret model Candice Swanepoel leaked on 4chan but were eventually deleted. However, the images were still being circulated on other social media sites like Tumblr and Twitter.
So far McCarthy, Ratajkowski or Swanepoel have not responded to the leak.
