Jenny McCarthy prayed to God before meeting husband Donnie Wahlberg: ‘Listen, don’t bring me half-baked guy'

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Jenny McCarthy was not looking for love when she met her husband. During a recent appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," McCarthy told host Kelly Clarkson that prior to meeting her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, she had just come off "a slew of uncomfortable and not healthy relationships," prompting her to "reset" her love life. "I’m like, ‘I’m really going to let the universe know I am shutting this down,’" she explained. "So, I stayed away from any blind dates or any dating, and I really focused on me because I’m like, ‘If I can upgrade me, then I’m going to upgrade the people I surround myself with and who I bring into my life.’ And I told God, I was like, ‘Listen, don’t bring me [a] half-baked guy.’" Until then, she explained, she would always lower her standards to meet the men she was dating at their level but realized it was time for them "to meet me where I’m at." Due to her break from dating, McCarthy "really wasn’t looking for anyone in particular" when she met Wahlberg.

Instead, she had spent the prior year working on "letting go of the demons, recognizing why I went into those patterns" with men in the first place. "A lot of it had to do with self-love and loving myself and knowing I was good enough," she explained to Clarkson. "Then the moment came, and Donnie was on a talk show I had.