Jenny McCarthy says her Jenny McCarthy tent living arrangement has reached month seven as she detoxes from mold poisoning. On an Oct. 29 podcast episode, she said she is sleeping in a backyard tent because she is too paranoid to sleep anywhere else.
“Because I am paranoid now about basically sleeping anywhere, I live in a tent,” McCarthy said. “I’m not even joking.” She added, “That’s where this journey has brought me,” making the setup sound less like a quirky choice than a strict routine built around avoiding contamination.
Mycotoxin and month seven
McCarthy said a doctor diagnosed her with Mycotoxin poisoning in December 2025, and she described a chain of symptoms that followed: a terrible, reoccurring infected root canal that blew up the left side of her face, constant chalazions on her eye, months of painful eye surgeries, severe skin rashes and food allergies. She also said she could not eat anything and started to get SIBO, then described the digestive problem bluntly: “That means whenever you eat, your stomach blows up.”
The timeline matters because her tent stay is not an overnight workaround. She said she is already in month seven of detox, which suggests the health issue has stretched across a long stretch of day-to-day life rather than a short recovery window. For readers watching how prolonged medical treatment changes normal routines, this is the kind of detail that turns a headline into a picture of how disruptive the condition has become.
California tent routine
McCarthy showed a video of what appeared to be a tan camping tent in her backyard and said she uses a rainproof cover to protect it against chemtrails and sprinklers. She said she was not worried about rain in California. The unusual part is not just that she is outside; it is that she says the tent is the only place she feels able to sleep while she works through the aftermath of the diagnosis.
McCarthy also said her entire house was remediated of mold by a specialist for tens of thousands of dollars, and contractors then had to rebuild it. She said she was told to get rid of all her furniture and all her clothes, which puts the tent in a harsher context: the home has already gone through remediation, but she still does not want to go back inside it. That is a practical sign of how contamination fears can linger even after the visible work is done.
Illinois home and the next step
McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg listed their Illinois home for $2.8 million in September, after owning the four-bedroom home for more than a decade. For now, the immediate question is not the listing price or the property history. It is how long she expects to keep living in the tent while the detox continues and whether the house she says was remediated will ever feel usable again.
