Jenny McCarthy doesn’t slow down. She is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth; Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism; and Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic. Her first hosting stint was on MTV’s wildly popular dating show, “Singled Out.” These days, you can find her on ABC as co-host of “The View,” which she joined September 2013, and you can get to know her a bit more intimately in her newest book, Stirring the Pot: My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life. Jenny took a break from her co-hosting duties (and her Chicago Sun-Times advice column-writing duties and her child-raising duties) for just long enough to answer a quick five questions for us here at Biographile.

BIOGRAPHILE: Your career – and thus your life – has largely been spent in the public’s eye. What is it about being in the spotlight that you enjoy so much?

JENNY MCCARTHY: It’s not the spotlight I enjoy so much as the people I meet and get to talk to while in it. I love the daily spotlight of hosting for “The View.” I get to talk to a group of interesting people (my co-hosts and our guests) every day – how great is that? And I must be doing something right if I’m still doing this after so many years!

BIOG: In all of your writing, from Belly Laughs to Stirring the Pot, nothing has been sacred. You’ve written with both humor and raw honesty about everything from pregnancy, to childrearing, to sex, religion, and more. Is there anything you would consider off limits?

JM: Except for the occasional mention when they were present for something I did, I don’t think it’d be appropriate for me to write about my family. I leave it to them to share their own memoirs!

BIOG: Stirring the Pot covers everything from relationship advice and experience, to memories of your mother, diet woes, anxiety, and more. How did you decide what to cover in your book?

JM: This time, I started by jotting down highlights from my experiences of the past couple of years – the funny, outrageous, difficult, happy, sad events or conversations or moments that taught me something important about life. I had more things happen to me in the last couple of years than could fit into this book. I whittled the massive list down to about forty stories I wanted to tell because I I’d learned something specific through each of them, something that I thought would teach the reader something about living life well.

BIOG: When recounting the good, the bad, and the ugly in Stirring the Pot, you manage to approach it all with the perfect amount of humor. Is this a tool you developed as a writer sharing your story? Or more of a general day-to-day outlook (crying jags in the public park, notwithstanding).

JM: I learned in high school that most people cut you a little slack if you make them laugh first. And they remember you better, too. Life’s too short to take yourself too seriously. If you can’t laugh at yourself, you are in trouble!

BIOG: You’ve toed the memoir territory throughout your ten books; do you think a full-blown, all-access written account of your life from start to present will ever appeal to you?

JM: Put all my books together and that’s what you’d get!