In 1968, Jaclyn married fellow actor Roger Davis. She was just 22 at the time they met and was studying ballet when the actor came into her life. After only two dates, she agreed to marry him and a huge wedding in her hometown of Houston followed. However, the marriage did not last long after Smith felt she couldn’t make a go of it both outwardly and physically. The whirlwind courtship led to struggles in later years and the two eventually separated. It took Smith two years to divorce Davis but their marriage finally ended in 1975. Jaclyn was so upset that her sacred marriage vows had severed that she couldn’t bring herself to inform her parents about the divorce for a long time. Looking back on her first marriage, she stated “Maybe my first husband needed a more worldly girl. We wanted different things in life at that point. Maybe if we had met later on it would have been different.”