London, Jan 28 - American model-and-actress Jenny McCarthy has admitted she has a crush on Jesus Christ because she loves his beard.

The former Playboy model who is currently in a relationship with actor Jim Carrey believes Christ would be a good guy to date if he wasn't 'dead', reports fashion.ie.

'I'm looking at a picture of Jesus on the wall. I would have totally dated Jesus. Love that beard. Too bad he's dead,' she posted on her Twitter account.

When some followers on the micro-blogging website took offence to the suggestion that Jesus was not alive, she added: 'Ok, ok my friends. I know Jesus is not dead. I'm saying that the fact his body has 'risen from the dead' makes him un-datable.'

Dating Jesus obviously stayed on her mind for some time, as she later tweeted: 'Did they do circumcisions in Jesus days?'