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My Autistic Son: A Story of Hope

When her son Evan was diagnosed with autism, Jenny McCarthy stopped at nothing to get him help. In a new memoir, she describes controversial therapies, his remarkable progress – and how her boyfriend Jim Carrey saw her through

Originally posted Thursday September 20, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

"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

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...