Jenny McCarthy accidentally wore her designer dress backwards at her first Oscar ceremony.
The 51-year-old former Playmate-turned-actress made her entrance by recalling her 1997 Academy Awards debut, when she was given an embarrassing gaffe over a Valentino dress given to a model and an embarrassing lesson on how to wear haute couture. .
When Kelly Ripa, 53, was asked what her big “takeaway” was from attending the Academy Awards, she said, “Living with Kelly and Mark.”
“When I was an It Girl, they invited me. They invite It Girls every year. Of course I was only invited once.
“I literally worked at a grocery store in Poland a year and a half before going to Oscar, so I didn’t know much about it.
“They put me in a Valentino dress. I didn't know they were wearing the dress backwards.”
She also recalled thanking Valentino Garavani on the red carpet for allowing her to “borrow” her dress. Her designer simply told her to wear it from back to front.
Jenny added: “He said, 'You're wearing it backwards.' You know, he still smelled like Polish sausage from when he worked in the deli, so he wasn't surprised. there is no!”
Kelly defended Jennie, saying the back of the dress should have been designed as a front, as Jennie wore it, and thanked the host for “hanging in” nearly 30 years after her red carpet fiasco.
At that year's Oscar ceremony, Jenny became a different story. Jenny wore a sheer dress that featured a bejeweled neckline and white sequin rose embellishments that wrapped around the bodice and skirt.
Jenny married actor Donnie Wahlberg, 54, in 2014, and the two have a son, Evan, with her ex-husband, director John Asher, 53, as well as Donnie Wahlberg. and two sons, Xavier Alexander and Elijah Hendricks. He was married to his ex-wife Kimberly Faye, who was 53 years old.