Forget the Villanova Wildcats in 1985.
Penelope Cruz has pulled off a true upset for the ages!
The 40-year old actress has staved off competition from the likes of Kate Upton to be named the Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire.
This is an honor that went to Rihanna in 2011, Mila Kunis in 2012 and Scarlett Johansson in 2013.
The famously private Cruz (who is married two Javier Bardem and who has two children with the Oscar Winner) possesses “no physical flaws,” write the magazine. “Her face contains no secrets, at least not about her.”
Talking up the beauty’s “perfect eyebrows” and “bottomless brown eyes,” Esquire sat down for a long lunch with Cruz, gaining little insight into the star’s personal life.
But a great deal of insight into how she’s changed over the years.
“I’ve played a lot of tricks on myself,” she says in the cover story. “I’ve made it hard for me sometimes, especially in my teens and twenties. I had an attraction to drama.
“Most of us have that, especially if you are an artist – you feel like you are tempted to explore the darkness. I could not be less interested now. For me, the most attractive, charming, cool, fun, interesting thing – how could I call it? A plan.”
In 2009, Cruz became the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award, taking home the trophy for her supporting role in Vicky Christina Barcelona. She has been nominated on two other occasions.
But should she have earned this title? You tell us: Is Penelope Cruz the Sexiest Woman Alive?