| "I
always play women I would date" --Angelina Jolie, Talk
Magazine, June 2000
In
January of 2002, Angelina Jolie tied with Britney Spears
for second place on Hollywood.com's poll of the Sexiest Stars 2002,
and in the same month claimed the third spot on E! Online's list
of the "25 Sexiest Women in Entertainment."
In
June of 2001, Harlequin readers voted Jolie the "2nd hottest
female celebrity;" this May, 53% of the readers of Parents
Magazine voted Angelina Jolie the celebrity mom they'd mostly like
to hang out with (Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton have adopted one
child and are in the process of adopting another).
In
the July 2002 issue of Cosmo Magazine, Buffy
star Sarah Michelle Gellar listed Angelina Jolie when asked whom
she thought was the "hottest actress," explaining "she
is very sexy. It sounds like an obvious answer, but there is something
about her. She's hot, I'm sorry. And she's an incredible actress."
When
asked in the August 2003 issue of Premiere magazine for
whom she'd "switch teams," Alyson Hannigan of Buffy
also listed Angelina Jolie (and Jodie Foster).
Janet
Jackson also cited Angelina Jolie as the sexiest woman alive in
a July, 2001 interview. "I think Angelina Jolie is another
who's got something about her. I don't know if it's her attitude
or her ass, but for me that's the most beautiful part of the body."
Even
Rosie O'Donnell jumped on the Jolie bandwagon
in her book, Find Me,
writing "there's something [Angelina Jolie] represents to me.
She represents some sort of truth and beauty."
Straight
Men. Straight Women. Bisexual Women and Lesbians. Moms and Dads.
Seems everyone but gay men are swooning for Angelina. That straight
men are drawn to her is no big surprise--but that so many women
(lesbian, bi and straight) are attracted to Jolie is not as predictable.
In fact, it is a development quite unlike anything we've seen in
American culture before. Not because so many women are attracted
to Jolie, but because so many of them have expressed this attraction
publicly.
Most
people would agree that Angelina Jolie is attractive. But there
are many beautiful women in Hollywood, and few generate the same
kind of overwhelming interest across genders and sexual orientations
that she does; clearly something else is going on here.
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