After modeling for a Playboy casting call at age 19 (“I couldn’t believe something so exciting happened to me on the very first day,”), Jaclyn showed her daring in the Playboy TV reality series Badass as a passenger in a high-flying dune buggy and later as hostess in four episodes of Playboy’s Beach House and whipped new girls into shape as a camp counselor in Camp Playboy. Perhaps most memorable was when she rappelled down the side of a mountain in Playboy Trip Patagonia. “The mountain climbing in South America got a bit dicey,” Jaclyn recalls. “Everyone was yelling at me in Spanish as I dangled there, and since I don’t know the language, I was like, Are they totally saying I’m about to die?” All of which preceded her appearance as a Playmate in April 2011.Not long after she won 2012 PMOY, Swedberg branched outside of the Playboy media empire. 

As a host of Mixed Martial Arts TV’s Blackbelt network she showed her tough side, too. She then took roles alongside Pauly Shore in Pauly~tics on Showtime and appeared with Ian Ziering and Noah Wiley in the feature film Snake and Mongoose. She slashed her way into the horror genre with starring roles in Muck and the sequel Muck Offed.

As for what Playmate-hood taught the dazzling seductress about herself, Jaclyn answers, “I’m so much more outgoing since becoming a Playmate, which is an amazing feeling. I think it proves that if you do something with enough heart, integrity and passion, good things will happen. Honestly, I couldn’t ask for anything else. That’s why, to me, being named PMOY is simply the sprinkles on my cupcake.”