Jenny McCarthy

**Jenny McCarthy**is a major character on *Glee: The New York Story*during the fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. She was a student at Penn State and apart of the Glee Club *Dynamic Explosion*. Following her loss at Regionals, she transfers to NYADA in Season Five and is part of *Finn Harmonic*.

Jenny is the older cousin on Mason and Madison McCarthy. Unlike Mason and Madison, Jenny takes her musical craft exceptionally serious, even to the point where she feels a sense of entitlement.

She is close to Marley Rose--despite showing envy towards her during the beginning of her Finn Harmonic tenure, Rachel Berry, Celina Jones, Simone Barberrie, Sydney Park, and Sebastian Smythe, the latter she married during the five-year time jump.

Despite playing a major role, Jenny is a recurring character for her entire tenure.

Jenny is currently on Broadway as Rachel's understudy in the untilted Broadway production.

## Biography

Jenny was born in Danbury, Conneticut to unnamed parents. Her cousins are Mason and Madison McCarthy, who both were part of New Directions. Jenny stays close to home initially and applies to Penn State, where she becomes the lead singer of *Dynamic Explosion*. She blew out her vocal chords during rehearsal--andf from screaming too much, and ultimately missed an entire show choir season. She came back more rutheless and with a vengance once she fully recovered.

## Personality

When Jenny is first introduced, she is cold, rutheless, and entitled. She at times can be very snobby, and manipulative, which ends up hurting her than helping her. Jenny initially aims to take Finn Harmonic down, but when Marley and the rest of Finn Harmonic defeats her, she is shunned by Dynamic Explosion, which allows Jenny to show some remorse. Artie befriending her helps lessen her cold streak, but she does still show it from time to time.

She transfers to NYADA and auditions to be in Finn Harmonic after Marley, Puck and Brittany leave the club, and is allowed in. However, Jenny aims to be the 'New Marley', meaning she hopes to be the star of the club. However, this is all for not when Marley returns to Glee Club and Jenny finds herself in Marley's shadow. Jenny becomes self consious about herself when Finn assigns Finn Harmonic a number by the beach in their bathing suits, showing Jenny deals with body dysmorphia. Marley extending a helping hand allows Jenny to put down her guard, and due to that she becomes more of a team player.

## Relationships

### **Jenny-Sebastian Relationship *(McSmythe)***

The **Jenny-Sebastian** relationship (commonly known as **McSmythe**) is the romantic relaitonship between **Jenny McCarthy** and **Sebastian Smythe**. Sebastian and Jenny initially couldn't stand each other in college, however, they developed a friendship during the five-year time jump, especially after Jenny broke up with Artie. It's revealed Jenny and Sebastian started dating soon after and eloped in Las Vegas. Sebastian and Jenny initially don't tell anyone they're married, but Marley finds out soon after. Jenny and Sebastian are then honest with their relationship with the rest of the Alumni.

### **Jenny-Artie Relationship *(McAbrams)***

The **Jenny-Artie**relationship (commonly known as **McAbrams**) is the romantic relationship between **Jenny McCarthy** and **Artie Abrams**. Artie befriends Jenny when he visits Penn State on a wrong turn to Philadelphia, and invites her to have Philly Cheese Steaks with her. Jenny accepts Artie's invitation and starts to show a softer side of her. Artie and Jenny get closer when Jenny transfers to NYADA, and the two of them eventually strike up a relationship.

Artie later proposes to Jenny, and as she is about to accept, Kitty shows up and witnesses the proposal. Jenny was initially hesitant about marrying Artie, but she accepted the proposal because it meant Artie was the one thing Kitty couldn't have. Jenny and Artie were engaged until the end of Season Five, but broke up during the five-year time jump. The reason for the break up was Artie failed to pay attention to Jenny while he was trying to jump-start his movie career. Jenny and Artie reunite when Jenny joins Sebastian at McKinley for a reunion, but they're on bitter terms.

### **Jenny-Jesse Relationship *(St. McCarthy)***

The **Jenny-Jesse**relationship (commonly known as **St. McCarthy**) is the romantic relationship between **Jenny McCarthy** and **Jesse St. James**. Jesse and Jenny met when Jesse and Finn tried to infiltrate Dynamic Explosion, which Jenny was the leader of. Jenny realizes that she needs Finn Harmonic off their game, so she decides to pretend to like Jesse in order to deter him from Finn Harmonic. However, when Jesse realizes Jenny was using him, he breaks off the relationship.

In lack of Jesse's knowledge, Jenny actually developed feelings for him, and was heartbroken when Jesse rebuffed her following her loss at College Regionals.

## Trivia

* Jenny shares many similar qualities to Jesse St. James.
	+ Both were leaders of rival Glee Clubs, they were cold, calculated and extremely loud.
* Jenny was born in Conneticut despite singing *Jenny From The Block* by Jennifer Lopez.
* Jenny is related to Mason and Madison McCarthy. Mason and Madison are William McKinley High School Alumni along with most of the Alumni.