Biography: Jennifer Walcott

Jennifer Walcott (born May 8, 1977 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American glamour model and actress best known as a centerfold in Playboy magazine.

Early life

Walcott was born to a family of four children. She is of Italian, Irish, and Polish descent. Her childhood was spent in Youngstown, Ohio. She was a cheerleader and a dancer growing up. In 1995, she graduated from Lowellville High School.^[1][2] Walcott wanted to be a veterinarian, mostly because she had many pets at her house.^[2]

In October 1996, at the age of nineteen, Walcott visited Los Angeles and decided to move there. The first few years in L.A. were rough for Walcott as she worked two jobs while taking business classes at Santa Monica College.^[1][3] In 2000, Walcott temporarily moved to Chicago to be close to her grandmother who was very ill and when her grandmother died Walcott decided to move back to Los Angeles. ^[3][2]

Career

After her move back to Los Angeles, Walcott decided to become a model. In late 2000 and early 2001, she attended a Playboy party as an make-up artist working an event and was taken notice of by accident; she was scheduled to shoot in mid-2001. She was chosen the Playmate of the Month for August 2001.^[4] She subsequently launched her own website, and appeared in many Playboy magazines. She was chosen by Carmen Electra to model for her celebrity guest photographer photo shoot on playboy.com. She has appeared in several music videos, including videos for Justin Timberlake, Sterophonics^[5], and Marc Anthony. Walcott was on the Playboy Xtreme team.^[6] During her first pregnancy, she appeared on the cover of Holistic Health Magazine, explaining to the magazine that she chose to maintain her pregnancy and birth organically, without the use of drugs.^[7] Walcott has posed in and for the covers of Moves, American Curves, Muscle & Fitness, Hers, Physical, Iron Man, VP Racing Fuel, Playboy swimsuit calendar, Performance Audio and Sound, AtoZ, Playboy Catalog, Planet Muscle, 944, Stun, Matco calender, Flirt atalog, People (Australian magazine) and many Playboy Special Editions.^[6][3] In 2005, Walcott along with Scarlett Keegan and Destiny Davis, were given keys to Las Vegas by the mayor in appreciation for posing for a calendar promoting the city.^[8]

In 2005, Walcott appeared in American Pie: Band Camp. In 2008, Walcott was in the movie American Summer. She is now the spokesperson for Ciclon rum and Bally's slot machine.^[3] She is also the new Mickey's girl.^[3][9] She was featured on many television shows such as Weakest Link, Street Smarts, Dog Eat Dog, Wild On!, Russian roulette, Howard Stern, MTV Cribs, Entertainment Tonight, Best Damn Sports Show Period, Ripley's Believe It or Not, The Other Half, and has been featured on E! True Hollywood Story (Football wives) and Mom Time.^{[5][3] [10]}

Walcott was chosen as a finalist to compete in the 2006 WWE Diva Search, but dropped out due to conflicts with other projects.^[10][11] She also won SPiN's Hottest Significant other. ^[10][11]

As of late 2009, Walcott co-hosted a local advice show in Arizona called Mom Time TV.^[12]

Personal life

Walcott is engaged to NFL free agent safety Adam Archuleta.^[13][14] They live in Phoenix and had their first child, Jett James Archuleta, on April 10, 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona.^[15] In continuance of her aforementioned organic approach to her pregnancy, Walcott also chose to nurse Jett by making her own organic formula with whey, whole milk, lactose, probiotics, high butter, cod liver oil, nutritional yeast flakes, amla c powder and water.^[7][16][17]

Walcott volunteers at the Ronald McDonald House in Washington, DC.^[18][19] and Sojourner Center in Phoenix.^[19][5] She has her esthetician license and owns a salon and boutique in L.A. called Celebrity Extensions.^{[1] [19]}

Walcott is also a poet. One of her poems won a statewide Reader's Digest contest.^[6]

Filmography

• American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)
• American Summer (2008)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Jennifer Walcott at MySpace.com
2. ^ ^{a b c} Jennifer Walcott's story at Playboy.com
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Jennifer Walcott's Official Resume
4. ^ Jennifer Walcott at Playboy.com
5. ^ ^{a b c} Jennifer walcott at Twitter.com
6. ^ ^{a b c} Jennifer Walcott at AskMen.com
7. ^ ^{a b} Playboy magazine; February 2009; Page 112.
8. ^ "Listen - Trio of Playmates get keys to Las Vegas - UPI.com". www.upi.com. 2005-01-29. http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2005/01/29/Trio-of-Playmates-get-keys-to-Las-Vegas/UPI-71481106980048/tab-listen/. Retrieved 2010-01-22. 
9. ^ Jen's official blog about Mickeys
10. ^ ^{a b c} Jennifer Walcott at Babes.net
11. ^ ^{a b} Jennifer Walcott at SPiN
12. ^ "Playmate News". Playboy (Playboy Inc.) 56: 122-123. November 2009. 
13. ^ Sheryl Bushaw (2008-02-13). "Playmate’s Chihuahuas poisoned in Chandler". East Valley Tribune. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/108844. 
14. ^ Larry Brown (2007-08-30). "Myspace Creep Busted for Stalking Adam Archuleta's Girlfriend, Jennifer Walcott". AOL Sports Blog. http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/08/30/myspace-creep-busted-for-stalking-adam-archuletas-girlfriend-j/. 
15. ^ "Out-of-town births announced". Vindy.com. http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/apr/24/x-leah-grace-leszynski-daughter-of-mark-and-lisa/. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
16. ^ Jennifer Walcott at MomTimeTV.com
17. ^ Jennifer Walcott's blog at MySpace.com
18. ^ "Official site bio". http://www.jenniferwalcott.com/AboutJennifer.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28. 
19. ^ ^{a b c} "Ms. Walcott's MySpace blog". http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=29238245&blogId=519140634. Retrieved 2009-11-19. 

External links

• Jennifer Walcott's official website
• Jennifer Walcott at Playboy.com
• Jennifer Walcott at the Internet Movie Database
• Jennifer Walcott at MySpace
• Jennifer Walcott at Twitter

Jennifer Walcott main page.