A “panel of experts” (beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers) has just released a list of the top 100 most naturally beautiful women. Here’s the top 10, in reverse order (just pretend the numbers count from 10 to 1 instead of from 1 to 10, HTML can’t do reverse-ordered lists [why not, dammit?]…oh, and the links are to Google Image Searches, and may not be worksafe):
- Elle MacPherson
- Helena Christensen
- Halle Berry
- Juliette Binoche
- Natalie Imbruglia
- Grace Kelly
- Angelina Jolie
- Cate Blanchett
- Liv Tyler
- Audrey Hepburn
I don’t agree with all of the list (Liv Tyler at #2?), was pleasantly surprised at some of it (hooray for putting Cate Blanchett in the top ten — while I’ve often thought that she’s gorgeous, she has a somewhat odd [angular?] look that some people I’ve talked to don’t appreciate as much), but putting Audrey Hepburn in the number one spot?
That is so, so, so absolutely perfect.
(Swoon…)
Personally, though, I’d knock Liv entirely off the top ten and put Nicole Kidman in her place. Part of what caught my eye about this story, though, was seeing it posted on Fark. Each link submitted to Fark gets a small category tag associated with it — “amusing”, “asinine”, “boobies”, and the like — and the tag assigned to this story was “unlikely”.
Unlikely?
My lord.
Reading the comments on Fark, I was quite gratified to learn that I wasn’t the only person to take umbrage at that “unlikely” tag…
(leans out of van, grabs poster by lapels, pulls him into van)
Okay, nodog, drive, drive!! (turns to poster) Just shut up and don’t scream and you’re going to be okay. (lights cigarette) Lissen, you. My friends and I just wanted to take you for a little ride so you could clear your head. Now what exactly is your problem with Audrey Hepburn? (smacks poster) Hey! Don’t you f*ckin’ turn away from me when I ask you a question! I said, WHAT IS YOUR F*CKING PROBLEM WITH AUDREY HEPBURN? (looks at poster) What, are you going to cry now? You scaaared? Well, you should be scared. Running around town with no taste whatsoever, you gonna get in big trouble someday, punk. (draws on cigarette) How old are you, kid? 30, 31? Don’t you know anything? You dare sit there and badmouth Audrey and what do you bring to the table, huh? (searches pockets of poster, looks at what he’s found) This is your ideal of a beautiful woman? BRITNEY F*CKING SPEARS? And what’s this? ARIA GIOVANNI? What are you, f*cking ten? Listen, I’m going to tell you once, so you listen good. Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak. Before you were a f*cking squirt on a towel these women ruled the earth. Raquel Welch, Grace Kelly. GRACE F*CKING KELLY. You get me? Don’t you ever—and I mean ever—bring your taste for dried up, pre-fabbed, over-hyped, no-talent, unattractive coozes around here again. (flicks cigarette in poster’s face) Now get the f*ck out of here before i do something you regret. (throws him out of the moving van).
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iTunes: “Earth Chakra” by Azukx from the album Return to the Source: The Chakra Journey (1996, 8:21).
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I would also kick Angelina Jolie off that list. Helena Christenson and Elle Macpherson can stay though. And Madonna at number 19? YIKES. Claudia Schiffer all the way down at 51??? Bizarre!
I think the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” really applies here. For example, I would have put Audrey Tatou, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vivien Leigh in the top ten (and I agree about Nicole Kidman needing to be moved up on the list). The problem with beauty is that it’s entirely subjective, and what I think is beautiful might not be what everyone else thinks is beautiful. I don’t find Halle Berry attractive at all.
Call me a pedophile if you will, but Lindsay Lohan would be near the top for me. But then again, I am about as far north of 18 as she is south of it, so it’s not like there’s a great deal of difference there. And Angelina Jolie would go away. Quickly. Very very quickly.
I’m all for Liv Tyler at Number 2. Ever seen Empire Records? Or, wait, maybe that was Renee Zellweger I was thinking of that was hot in that movie. By the way, did she have surgery or are the list and I in severe disagreement as to Renee’s hotness?
I can’t agree with Audrey Hepburn. She is only so so to me and looks like an anorexic. I’ve always thought Jaclyn Smith from the old Charlie’s Angels show and many mini-series was the most naturally beautiful woman. Lots of women are beautiful, but we’re talking naturally, without the makeup they just look like the rest of us. Michelle Pfeiffer would be a close second.
hi according to my opinion joile will be at first position at all she is a total package at all no substitute.
What is this ?U guys Not Keeping Ayshwaria Rai.Look her and u will see that she is the most beautiful women in the world
Dunno what you guys think of Jennifer Love Hewitt but I can not believe that she did not make it to the top 100, let alone the top 10 or 20…
Ow my god..people are crazy…Aishwarya Rai is ‘the most’ beautfull + natural women on earth! She has the beauty of a goddes..I don’t unsterstand people..nathalie imbruglia? yeah right..
Although, the world (especially Hollywood!)is full of beautiful women, my vote goes to actress Jaclyn Smith. She comes closest to perfection. Her eyes (it’s either green or sapphire), her small nose ( perfect match to her high cheekbones), her glorious beautiful hair, that sexy voice and her bone structure. It’s so difficult to get past of her. She’s a standout in every angle.
I totally agree with the two posters who said Jaclyn Smith she has always been so beautiful and I think she’s the most beautiful famous woman ever! Angelina Jolie should really be on the # 1 most ugly celebrities with such grotesque overly huge lips that look just like a bass and trout fish lips!
I’m also really surpised Brooke Shields wasn’t on this list! There is an excellent fan site for her called Brookenooke.com and there are so many beautiful pictures of Brooke even as a very little girl aqnd from all of her young modeling and movie years.
Dfinitely Aishwarya rai Beauty, Brain, Behave and she can dance too
i am absolutely pleased that aishwarya DID NOT MAKE this list. for her to be on the same list as audrey hepburn, grace kelly or cate blanchett would have been a total aberration. but angelina jolie and LIV TYLER? how did they make that list? i think jolie is attractive but not as one of the most beautiful…and liv tyler doesn’t fit in that list AT ALL (actually i only liked her as Arwen in LOTR, when she was carrying Frodo on horseback). in fact she and aishwarya have something(s) in common: they are both extremely annoying to look at and they are both media-darlings which makes them nauseatingly over-hyped. where is sophia loren? she is as timeless as audrey, though in a more womanly way; audrey was the classic girl and sophia embodied the spirit of a nurturing and beautiful woman. she, grace kelly and audrey are my all-time favourites.
blardy hell. I think aishwarya rai is much more beautiful than sophia loren. bleargh
mitzubishi,
Can I ask how you can possibly find Angelina Jolie attractive at all with those ugly humongous abnormal looking lips? Because I just can’t understand how anyone can find her attractive at all! I have found many men and women on other message boards saying the same thing I’m saying and one guy said the last time he saw lips like hers it was on the end of a fish hook. There is a site Eighy Most Beautiful Women and on another site Yahoo Groups The Most Beautiful Women the guy who runs the Eighty Most Beautiful Women site said he never found Liv Tyler,Cameron Diaz,Madonna and Angelina Jolie attractive at all!
Liv Tyler is STUNNING, period. She has the most gorgeus face and eyes ever, and she is hardly in the spotlight because she has better things to do. I do not find her overrated at all. I bet ANY of the women in that list would look horrible without make up, except Liv who is such a fresh etheral appeareance, wearing the least make up.
The only draw back for Liv is that she has no clothing or fashion sense at all… but as a beauty, she IS the most beautiful woman on earth.
Someone mentioned how come Jennifer Love Hewitt not being on the list. Are you kidding me? That woman’s head looks like an alien or better said like a wooden spoon, and her body does not fit her weird face at all.
Although Angelina has a big head on a skeletal frame of a body, she can stay on the list somewhere at the end of it, at least in my book. I love the Angelina that played in Gia though.
People forgot about Brigitte Bardot? She was a goddess! And yeah, Sophia Loren….
One of the contemporany beauties these days for me is Adriana Lima! She is just perfect and I do not see her on the list. I see Madonna who becomes fuglier on a daily basis with her manly body frame and a tired wrinkled face under a heavy make up.
So wake up people to beauties like Liv Tyler.
Oh God, how could I possibly forget. Where is Nathalie Portman??? She is my second, uhm, number one!!!
What’s with the Liv Tyler and Angelina Jolie hate? Don’t like women with dark ethnic features (full lips) on the site, eh? They most certainly deserve to be on that list!
I think all the women on this list are beautiful, but I can’t help wondering why Andrea Corr isn’t on the list. I definitely agree about Jaclyn Smith though. Even as at little girl I remember thinking she was the most beautiful, composed and graceful woman I’d ever seen.
oh yes, there’s also a very pretty spanish model called Almudena Fernandez.
As a gay man I find spending time trying to see who’s fairest of them all, ranks right up there with cleaning the goo off the shelves in the medicine cabinet. (or ranking men for that matter).
But when it comes to beauty ! tend to favor those people and those thing that manage to be beautiful for a long, long time. Anyone can be pretty for a short period of time. It takes something else to exude, to weep…. Beauty for years and years. Princess Diana was what, 36 when she died? From 18-36 was there ever a day when she wasn’t beautiful? Was there any doubt that she would continue to be beautiful for another 30?
Sean Connery always looks good, regardless of his age, Harrison Ford’s doing well. Jaclyn Smith did it, as did Grace Kelly. Sophia Loren has aged very well, My God that woman might die of old age and still be beautiful!
Sure it’s easy to be pretty when your 20, or even 30. But why don’t you come back when your 50, or 60 and then we’ll have a look at you. At well over 60 Tina Turner could slide her skirt up her leg and every heterosexual man in the arena leaned forward for a better look.
That’s Beauty….
angelina has always been atractive all her costars have said so they have seen her in person looking at pictures doest really do justice to her iven kate beckinsale wants her kate has said it her self, why wast kate b on the list she is hot too.
Liv Should be the first ever. She is the most beautiful woman indeed.
ummm… Angelina Jolie’s lips arent real. It’s collegen. so my is she on the top 10 most naturally beautiful women?
Caterina you are so right.
Michelle, if you have seen any of Angelina’s picture from childhood or her father’s lips you would realize that she just inherited the thing. I am also a person with full lips, but I bet in America people would believe they are just fake. Some people just get them by nature.
YAY! Where to submit a petition to move Liv to the first place? LOL Audrey Hepburn can’t be the first, she’s obviously spent some time in a concentration camp LOL she’s too skinny! Liv Tyler deserves the title being so genuinely beautiful and fresh! And btw I’d also add Kate Beckinsale instead of Kate Blanchett (I don’t know how she got on that list at all:S)
Jacalyn Smith gets my vote. It is said that the Charlie’s Angel’s cameramen loved her because you could never take a bad picture of her. She always looked good. There is no one, past or present who compares with her. She is elegant and is still lovely. She didn’t have fake boobs, a fake nose, lifted this and lifted that like all the celebs today. Angeline is attractive but I can’t get by her hardness. I can’t get past what is…I don;t care how many kids she adopts.
Hooray Caterina, I subscribe to your petition.
Loved your funny commentary about Audrey Hepburn, I feel the same way about her. 
OMG, Not only Lynda carter is not ranked #1, shes not even in the list? This is wrong!
Someone pleeeeaaaaase explain just why Elle McPherson is in the top ten????!!!!
But thanks for acknowledging the natural beauty of Cate Blanchett.
I am definitely on board with Aishwaryia fans, she is out of this world.
Angelina a “natural beauty”? Check that again, experts.
And why is Monica Belluci not in the top 10?
God I think ppl got crazy. Cate Blanchett is beautiful. Can I lol? But like REALLY LOL? I mean to put Cate Blanchett BEFORE Angelina Jolie( who is… the haters can go ballistic.. a natural beauty with the stress on “beauty”)??? I would be surprised if she made it to top 100. But the 3’d in top 10? My brain kills itself. You see it’s the whole phrase that counts “natural beauty”,but in case of Cate Blanshett it’s just “natural” part that matches LOL.
Ouh… Almost have forgotten… Liv Tyler is da best:P
Ok, I don’t really take issue with the top 10. I mean sure, they’re not my top 10, but I understand not everyone has exactly the same tastes. However there’s a few women that (IMO) most definitely deserve a place on there, and a few on the list that most definitely should NOT be there. One of the ones that is AWOL is Jessica Alba. I really can’t understand even a top 25 without her on it, let alone a top 100. She’s certainly the cream of the current crop of young’uns, and is easily more beautiful than at least half the women on the list have ever been or ever will be.
Caterina, that whole Audrey Hepburn concentration camp thing is not funny at all. Do you even know Audrey’s history. Her father abandoned her family because he was a Nazi sympathizer and she personally saw Jewish people in those trains. Then when the Nazis began to lose and supplies went short they would steal food from the Dutch and many would die from starvation or malnutrition. This is why she felt so touched by Anne Frank’s diary because of the starvation Audrey went through herself. She even saw some of her own relatives shot because the Nazis thought they were trying to resist. So pardon her for having some issues with food. Audrey hepburn is unique that’s why she is considered so beautiful. She came to hollwood with bushy eyebrows and a boyish hairdo and still managed to personify class and elegance. So she’s unconventional, that’s why she’s very beautiful. Though not #1, she should be in the top ten. I also agree that Rai should be in the list somewhere, she is very stunning. Jaclyn Smith should also be on the list, if she isn’t already, I sort of skimmed and did not see her. No human being has a true symmetrical face, one side is always a little weaker than the other but Jaclyn Smith’s face is near mirror image.Grace Kelly is my choice for #1, very nice bone structure and has class and elegance to match
Let’s not forget Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Bisset(one of the three lovely “Jackies”, the other two, of course, being Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Jaclyn Smith). Cate Blanchett is somewhat cute but not beautiful.
Well, she may be pretty, but I still do not consider to be a beauty. There is also nothing that is special about Lucy Liu. I do not know why Danica McKellar was not mentioned in at least the larger list.
I think your mom is sorta cute, Mike.
Heh. So do I.
Why is Vanessa Paradis mentioned twice on the list?
Also, not to insult her, but Katherine Hepburn was only slightly attractive. No offense to the authors of that list, but it is highly inaccurate and seems to have a youthful bias(the majority being from the last 10 or 15 years.)
Without a doubt, beautiful inside and out, from early 70’s in Charlies Angels and still NOW….JACLYN SMITH…….shes stunning, just look at her in “Shear Genius” , she must have a painting in the attic !! Beautiful and a proper lady…a very rare quality.
Lindsay Lohan tops Maxim’s ‘Hot 100’
• Maxim names Lindsay Lohan No. 1 of its “Hot 100” • Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson follow • Only one of Olsen twins made the cut
NEW YORK (AP) — Lindsay Lohan rules.
According to Maxim magazine, at least this month, she’s the hottest woman in the world.
The “Georgia Rule” actress-troublemaker tops the magazine’s eighth annual “Hot 100” list, a ranking by editors weighing buzz and beauty for women in film, TV, music, sports and fashion. (Watch how Lohan’s “troublemaking” may be hurting her career)
“There is no other star in the world (who) causes more of a stir in the public eye than Lindsay,” said Maxim Editor in Chief Jimmy Jellinek in a statement. “Her every move is watched and reported on.”
Not surprisingly, Jellinek described his young, male readership as being “obsessed” with the 20-year-old Lohan, a ubiquitous party girl who spent the weekend soaking up the sun (with a new boyfriend) in the Bahamas.
Jessica Alba had to settle with the No. 2 on the list, which is in the magazine hitting stands Saturday. She’s followed, in order, by Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Biel, Ali Larter, Eva Mendes, Rihanna, Eva Longoria, Fergie, Sienna Miller, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles and Katherine Heigl. (Watch clips of some of these stunning women)
Celebrity sisters Ashlee and Jessica Simpson are on the list at No. 16 and No. 41, respectively. Ashley Olsen, half of the mogul acting twins, placed 37th, while sister Mary-Kate didn’t make the cut.
The cover of the Hot 100 June issue features a picture of No. 29: Sarah Silverman.
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Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/15/people.maximhot100.ap/index.html
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HELLO..Don`t You think Audrey Hepburn should be 1st…….She was like the mostttt beautifulest women! ever..her thiness suited her!
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List is OK. I’d like to see more models. Petra Nemcova, maybe?
Dad was it american top-100? Then I understand why it sucks so much. Lindsey Lohan! Ewww. Christina Aguilera? Yeah put also Britney Spears and all those fake-boobs blondes along. I agree with Liv Tyler 100 percent and I wish she was the first. I would also put Nicole Kidman into the list though right after Liv Tyler and would cross out Cate Blanchett (What is she doing there?:S I agree with Caterina!!!) And I would put Audrey Hepburn much lower than the first place also.
Beautiful, what is beautiful or handsome. My favorite actress is Michelle Pheiffer and favorite actor is Sandler. Beauty should go beyond perfect features. How about sensuality, sensitivity, emotions which can be seen on a not so perfect face. I am sure everyone of us has experienced meeting somebody which became more and more beautiful as you spent time with them. How about Ugly Betty? Is’nt she a perfect example of beauty. A face without expression with perfect features is much less interesting. I think it is time to give beauty a new face, Angelina is the most sensuous women ever seen and her lips eventhough not so perfect in the classical ideal have not taken away everythingelse which is so perfect on her.
Audrey Hepburn…Should be 1st…. She was The Most Beautifulest Lady Ever…
Liv Tyler absolutely
I reckon Jaclyn Smith is still the Most Beautiful Woman in Hollywood today — not to mention in the World. It’s been like 30 years since she catapulted to stardom as one of “Charlie’s Angels.”
She really looks fabulous on television and print ads. I also like now that’s she’s older and matured. I think, she looks prettier now than before. Her face got more character and maturity works for her.
Anyone seen her at last year’s EMMY awards presentation on tv? Gosh, she took my breath away. Her hair, her smile, those sexy thighs and legs and that sexy purrrring voice.
Cheers!!!
JACLYN SMITH IS FAR AND AWAY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND SEXY WOMAN TO EVER GRACE THE SILVER SCREEN.
OTHER BEAUTIES ARE GRACE KELLY, AVA GARDNER, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, RITA HAYWORTH, SHARON STONE, MICHELLE PFEIFER, WHITNEY HOUSTON AND VANESSA WILLIAMS
ANDREA CORR…. finally somebody mentioned her - she blows all those women out of the water. Her beauty could melt titanium
Without question, her face is the ideal face
I have looked over the women on this list and most of them are buck-ugly! The only two from the list that deserve to be there are Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. I agree with the other posters about Jaclyn Smith. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She has class, elegance,and classic beauty. She should be at the top of this list. She is the most beautiful woman in the world.
vanessa paradis is not beautiful people ! she has ugly teeth yuck oh!! Please take her off this list.
Any list that doesn’t include Natalie Portman is seriously lacking. Let me rephrase that. Any list that doesn’t have Natalie Portman in the number one spot is seriously lacking. I do like the fact that you put Cate Blanchette and Liv Tyler on the list though.
Where’s Meg Ryan?
I don’t agree at all… Beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers? You should ask this to staright man too, where is Aishwaria Rai? Elizabeth Hurley? and sooo many more…
This is the most beautiful woman on earth
http://www.mostbeautifulwomanonearth.com/
How about http://www.mostbeautifulwomanonearth.com/ “The Most Beautiful Woman On Earth”
Any list of beautiful women that does not include Elizabeth Taylor cannot consider itself legitimate..All one has to do is view pictures of her as a child to know that she is, indeed, a natural beauty. And let’s add Kim Novak, Greer Garson and Olivia deHavilland to your somewhat short-sighted list.
Ok first thing i noticed the author has a thing for brunettes
I am sure he will agree with me 
, surprisingly i don’t see any Indian women there. True There are really beautiful women in my country 
Aishwarya rai
Priyanka chopra
Lara Dutta
Where is Elizabeth Montgomery on the all time list? She takes your breath away when you look at her.
how old is this post ….. ????? according to recent polls by people’s magzine australian model “phoebe tonkin” is the most beautiful woman in the world right now as of 2009 ….. okay watever ……. this post isnt fair we all know ……. angelina is supposed to be topping the list … and how come there isnt aishwariya rai in the list …..
where the hell is nicole kidman???? guys check out the face of nicole almost perfect…..divine…..i bet the one who made the list is biased in my opinion….hehehe
i agree…we almost forgot nicole kidman…..nicole’s face is extraordinary….maybe they did not put her in the list because she is incomparable to these ugly top ten list LOL
Natural… have you seen half these women without their make up. Google them. They’ll scare the living daylights out of you!