Esquire crowns Halle Berry ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ — Really?!

Halle Berry may be a mommy of a certain age, but the men’s magazine Esquire says the Oscar-winning actress is still the Sexiest Woman Alive.

In an article posted on Tuesday on the magazine’s website (www.esquire.com), Berry poses in a parody of a 2000 cover photograph of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and writes about what she thinks of winning Esquire’s annual honor for the first time.

“Well, I don’t know exactly what it means but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it,” Berry wrote.

Esquire said it dressed Berry in a racier version of Clinton’s suit jacket and blue tie to recreate an iconic cover for its 75th anniversary celebration.

Berry starred last year in the movie “Things We Lost in the Fire” and is due to star next year in “Frankie and Alice,” a film about a woman with multiple personality disorder.

In the Esquire article, Berry describes things she finds sexy. It turns out that spaghetti and wine are major turn-ons.

“Sexy is not about wearing sexy clothes or shaking your booty until you damn near get hip dysplasia; it’s about knowing that sexiness is a state of mind — a comfortable state of being,” she said.

- from Reuters

Six months after giving birth and at age forty, Halle Berry has been named the sexiest woman alive by the men’s magazine Esquire.
As a celebration of the magazine’s anniversary Berry poses in re-creations of the mag’s covers. In an article posted on the Esquire website, the 42-year-old star responds: “I know damned well I’m sexier now than I used to be.
“Sexy is not about wearing sexy clothes or shaking your booty until you damn near get hip dysplasia; it’s about knowing that sexiness is a state of mind — a comfortable state of being,” she said.
“It’s about loving yourself even in your most unlovable moments.”

- from Times