"I don't want to come across like a preacher," says McCarthy (with Evan, 5, in Malibu). "All I'm doing is showing there are things you can do to ease autism." Photo by: Kwaku Alston
Fighting for My Autistic Son | Jenny McCarthy
For years Jenny McCarthy promoted herself as an uninhibited good-time girl – Playboy Playmate, raunchy comic actress, author of frankly funny books on pregnancy and motherhood. But she was just another terrified mom in 2004 when her son Evan, then 2 1/2, suffered a series of life-threatening seizures – and was eventually diagnosed with autism. "Holding my convulsing baby as he tried to breathe," recalls McCarthy, 34. "From that day on, I was not who I...