"Before the vaccination, he was huggy, lovey, snuggly," she says in the newest issue of Us Weekly. "Then it was like someone came down and stole him."

McCarthy, 36, remembers when Evan began to come out of his shell while watching a SpongeBob episode. "I heard Evan laugh...I jumped on the bed and started screaming."

She adds, "When he finally hugged me, I prayed, 'Please God don't let this be the only time.'"

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"I made a deal with God," she explains. "I said, 'You fix my boy, you show me the way and I'll teach the world how I did it.'"



As you can see from the accompanying photographs, Evan appears to be a perfectly happy, healthy, mom-groping little boy. We can only hope the Travoltas—who too are rumored to have a child with the disorder—are soon made aware of McCarthy's holistic approach, and that a gluten-free lifestyle will have their little one honking Kelly Preston's jubblies in no time.

• Jenny McCarthy: My Son No Longer Has Autism [Us]

She's got a movie-star character named Susanna Mercer who's Australian, has a perfect bod and "only dates billionaires."

Joe Ferraro, the fictitious husband in the novel, is the star of TV's "The Squad." He "has a schoolboy crush" on the actress, the author writes.

In the book, Susanna "has no female friends," but invites Joe and his stay-at-home wife, Julia, to her party, telling them the dress is casual. However, the author writes, "Susanna wore a flimsy, and completely sheer, floor-length gown. ... Your eye was naturally drawn to the body underneath ... a body that appeared flawless, and was, except for the small triangle concealed by a pink lacy thong, plainly visible to all. ... Her breasts managed to stay firmly uplifted without the benefit of a bra."

"Susanna has irritated me on occasion over the past several years," admits the wife, clad in jeans and clunky boots.

While Susanna certainly sounds a lot like the glamorous Estée Lauder pitchwoman and international philanthropist of mystery, the publisher—who've spared no expense in finding only the finest scenes of softcore domesticity clip-art for its cover—insist that the book is a work of fiction, and that drawing any similarities between "that trampy Susanna character and Ann's lovely and close personal friend Elizabeth Hurley" would be a gross and unfair misjudgement, adding, "I mean, come on—Susanna is the face of Clinique, and came to prominence when her actor boyfriend starred in the sleeper comedy hit Three Bat Mitvahs and a Baptism. They're totally different people!!"

• Denis Leary's wife 'Leary' of friendship with Elizabeth Hurley [NY Daily News]