Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

She has claimed that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helped cure her son—claims considered false by the medical community. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a television and film acting career. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year.