Esquire magazine has crowned a new "Sexiest Woman Alive" for 2008 and the title goes to eternal beauty Halle Berry. The new mom is rightly stunned: "Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it.”
On the other hand, the actress did have to wonder why it took the mag so long, since her Bond girl orange bikini days ("Die Another Day") was six years ago.
Berry wrote an acceptance speech for her Sexiest Woman award to say thanks but . . . WTF?
“I’ve been in the business for more than twenty years, and you decide now, at this particular time, that I’m the sexiest woman alive?" she writes.
"Come on. I mean, you couldn’t go with the Bond-girl year? You didn’t like the orange bikini? I liked the orange bikini. That would have been a pretty good year. Or what about the ‘Monster’s Ball’ year? That was a sexy moment.”
Berry adds, “There are billions of women on the planet, but let’s just say for shits and giggles that I am the sexiest woman alive… I would thank the good folks at Esquire for thinking outside the box — even if those folks are just eight editors wearing competing seventy-five-dollar button-down shirts, swinging themselves around in cheap desk chairs in some windowless conference room somewhere above Manhattan.”
