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McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her middle-class Irish Catholic kinsfolk lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. Her relation is Melissa McCarthy of Gilmore Girls fame. McCarthy's mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman.[5][6] She attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago's South Side. As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose edifice individual she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was a cheerleader at both Brother playwright High School and St. Laurence High Schools,[7] though she has referred to herself as an \"outcast\" at her school.[8] After McCarthy graduated from broad school, she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale to think nursing. She needed money to pay for college, so she decided to submit her picture to Playboy magazine to attain money. She was acknowledged and became a model.