Jaclyn Swedberg Is Playmate Of The Year

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OUR FAVORITE DAREDEVIL PULLS OFF HER MOST IMPRESSIVE FEAT YET

/ hen uue last checked in with Jaclyn Swedberg, for our January Playmate Review, she made us a big promise: "IF I win Playmate of the Vear, I will show up at every event in my teal Bunny suit." Well, Jaclyn, dust off that suit, because Hef and our read­ers have made your dream come true. * In hindsight, her ascent

eems almost predestined. It uuas two years ago this

lonth that Jaclyn overcame what she calls a "brutal shy­ness" and showed up at a Playboy Mansion casting call, where Playboy TV pro­ducers immediately selected her to appear on a special about the experience. "J-

couldn't believe something so exciting happened to me on the very first day," she recalls with a jubilant laugh. Within weeks she had become a Playboy TV mainstay—playing nude war games on Badass, interviewing celebrities such as IMFAO on Beach House and rappelling down Argentinean mountains on Playboy Trip: Patagonia. "The mountain climbing in South America got a bit dicey," Jaclyn admits. "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?"

A few months later we ployed up her daredevil TV persona in her April 2011 Playmate pictorial, styling the southern California native as a biker chick and placing her atop a gleaming Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Our little white lie? Jaclyn, who spends her spare time snuggling with a Kindle or baking peanut-butter-and-chocolate brouunies, didn't actually know how to drive such a vehicular beast. "Because of the pictorial, I had a big biker-guy following on Twit­ter," she says. "They all thought I could ride. Luckily, over the past feuu months I've learned how, which is great because I don't feel like a liar anymore!"

When not riding her new 2012 Harleu Sportster Fortu-€ight, Jaclyn con be found on the MMfl Blockbelt TV network—under the nom de octagon Juijitsu Jac—as an on-screen fight jock and celebrity inter­viewer. So far she's spoken with the likes of Warrior leading men Nick Nolte and

Tom Hardy, and there ore more starry assignments on the horizon. "It's been a fantastic experience, especially because I want to be a broadcast journalist."

Squally memorable—though much more somber—was a February trip to a Los Angeles Vfl facility. "Miss Septem­ber 2011 Tiffany Toth and I went to sign issues of the magazine on Valentine's Day. n lot of the guys were wounded or homeless. It was both on eye-opening and a humbling experience. I plan on vis­iting there more often in the future."

fls for what Playmate-hood has taught her about herself, Jaclyn says, "I learned that it's okay to put yourself out there. When I went to my first cast­ing call—that ujos so not me. Or the first time I went to the Mansion alone on o Sunday afternoon for Fun in the Sun without knowing anyone else there— that so wasn't me either. But 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 uuhy, to me, being named PMOV is simply the sprinkles on my cupcake."

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