Jaclyn Nesheiwat Stapp (born July 29, 1980) is a beauty queen, author, philanthropist, actress, and fashion model with pageant roots in Florida and New York. She is married to

Scott Stapp Scott Stapp (born Anthony Scott Flippen, August 8, 1973) is an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Creed. He has also fronted the band Art of Anarchy and has released three solo albums: '' The Great Di ...

, the voice of the band

Creed A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) in a form which is structured by subjects which summarize its core tenets. The ea ...

and current solo touring artist. Her most notable titles include Mrs. Florida America 2008,

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2004, and First Runner-Up for Mrs. World 2022. In 2010 she wrote a children's book, ''Wacky Jacky: The True Story of an Unlikely Beauty Queen''. She is executive director of The Scott Stapp With Arms Wide Open Foundation, and founder of CHARM (Children Are Magical) by Jaclyn Stapp, which was formed to raise awareness of issues with which children deal and to provide underprivileged youth help with education.

Pageants

In 1995, Stapp entered the pageant for Miss Florida Teen 1995. She entered the pageant system again seven years later with the Miss Florida USA 2001 where she placed third runner-up. The following year she competed for the second time and was first runner-up to Shannon Ford. Having moved to New York, Nesheiwat competed in the

pageant in 2003, where she won the 2004 title. During her reign, Stapp was invited by the White House Provisional Coalition Authority in March 2004 to visit U.S. troops in Iraq including her sister Army Capt.

Julia Nesheiwat Julia Nesheiwat is an American national security adviser who served as the 11th homeland security advisor in the Trump administration from 2020 to 2021. She also served in the Bush and Obama administrations. Early life and education The daughte ...

(then serving in Baghdad, later the US

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). Stapp represented New York in the

Miss USA 2004 Miss USA 2004 was the 53rd Miss USA pageant, held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on April 12, 2004. The winner of the beauty pageant was Shandi Finnessey, who became the first winner from the state of Missouri. Finnessey was crow ...

pageant broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California in April 2004. On May 31, 2008, Stapp won the Mrs. Florida America pageant, and was named

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2008 First-Runner Up and awarded the title of Most Photogenic. In 2011, she represented the country of Jordan at Mrs. World, where she placed in the Top 5. In 2022, she was First-Runner Up in that Mrs. World pageant and was winner of the Congeniality Award.

Magazine covers

*Stork *PBG Lifestyle *Boca Life Magazine

Acting

Stapp's acting credits include episodes of ''

Full House ''Full House'' is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC. The show is about widowed father Danny Tanner who enlists his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and childhood best friend Joey Gladstone to help raise his three dau ...

'', ''

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'', and ''

Sex and the City ''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (newspaper column), newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the ...

''.

Personal life

Stapp is of Jordanian descent, one of five children raised in

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. After graduating from Umatilla High School in 1998, she attended

Stetson University Stetson University is a private university with four colleges and schools located across the I–4 corridor in Central Florida with the primary undergraduate campus in DeLand. The university was founded in 1883 and was later established in 1887 ...

and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing and Communications in 2002. She is the sister of

and

Janette Nesheiwat Janette may refer to: People * Janette Ahrens (1925–2016), American figure skater * Janette Barber (born 1953), American comedian, television producer and writer * Janette Hales Beckham (born 1933), general president of the LDS Young Women Or ...

, MD, a board-certified family and emergency physician. Stapp married

Viscaya Gardens, Florida The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborho ...

in 2006. The two met during her reign as Miss New York USA at a Muscular Dystrophy charity gala in New York in January 2005. The couple have three children.

Bibliography

''Wacky Jacky: The True Story of an Unlikely Beauty Queen''. TriMark Press (2010).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stapp, Jaclyn Living people Miss USA 2004 delegates 1980 births Stetson University alumni Mrs. America (contest) delegates American people of Jordanian descent People from Carmel, New York People from Umatilla, Florida