According to Men’s Health, Jennifer Aniston is the hottest woman ever:
“Funny is sexy, and Jennifer Aniston is funny-she was invited to join ‘Saturday Night Live’ before her big break with ‘Friends.’ Her down-to-earth persona makes her seem attainable, and anyone who’s seen her in ‘Office Space’ has to admit she makes even pieces of flair look good. She rarely plays the airhead, and she seldom overplays a role: she’s funny in a quiet, refreshingly human way. And her all-too-human love life off-screen inspires sympathy that not even a string of bland romantic comedies can diminish. Other sex symbols drift toward one-dimensionality, becoming flat icons in the process, but throughout her career Aniston has remained sexy, funny, and unmistakably real. For that reason, she is our all-time sexiest woman.”
While I have no problem with Jennifer Aniston, there is simply no way that she should be considered the hottest woman of all time…or even of any given year…or even in the top 5 of any given year.
First of all, the quote from Men’s Health discusses her “real”-ness, as if that should make her hotter. While this trait may make her a more interesting, complex, and worthwhile person and actress, I disagree that it makes her a sex goddess. Sure, she’s attractive. She’s had a great acting career. She can rock a blonde hairdo and looks good on the covers of magazines. But she just doesn’t scream hot and sexy, and I’ve yet to meet any guy who thinks she does.
She looks like the good girl who became a soccer mom (not that there’s anything at all wrong with being a good girl or a soccer mom!), not the girl who’s a sex goddess.
In fact, some might argue that sex goddesses are so because they seem somewhat mysterious and unattainable…we don’t know their story and it intrigues us all the more. Jennifer Aniston’s life stories have been splashed about the news media and tabloids to the point of saturation. Perhaps to where she feels too familiar, more like your pretty cousin than the hottie you can’t wait to learn more about.
And while Men’s Health may be accurate that she rarely plays an airhead, I find her one-dimensional because she seems to have little range as an actress. Despite her turn as a sex-crazed, overbearing boss in this year’s comedy Horrible Bosses, most of her movies seem to be romantic comedy safe-choice chip shots. As for Men’s Health judgment on her comedic talent and level of funny…I also must disagree.
If anything, Jennifer Aniston’s longtime Friends character, Rachel Green, was the least funny of the trio of female characters. Aniston played the straight woman to the zanier hijinks of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) and Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), with her romantic troubles seeming to take up more space than her sharing in the manic energies of her two sisters-in-arms. While Aniston’s drama may have helped Friends as a sitcom, it wasn’t about to win an Academy Award.
For an actress who should be ranked #1, check out Olivia Wilde.