Celebrity Mound

As the culmination of our anniversary celebration, Halle Berry — who just had a baby, like, six months ago — presents the final re-creations of classic Esquire covers. Here, she delivers her acceptance speech.

Wow. Sexiest woman alive, huh?

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? 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. Couldn’t you have packaged that up with some list of the best movie sex scenes ever? That would have been very easy, very magaziney. But 2008? Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but being forty-two and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it. There are billions of women on the planet, but let’s just say for shits and giggles that I am the sexiest woman alive. First, I would have to thank all the people who made it happen. 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. I’d also have to thank my “team,” the ones who make the magic happen — my hair designer, my stylist, my makeup artist, and my beloved trainer. And I would absolutely have to thank the photographer, because without him, the camera is all lies of a different sort. I mean, look at the pictures. That takes a lot of work. I’m lucky to have these people. Don’t think I don’t know it.

Check out the entire story here:

http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/halle-berry-sexiest-woman-alive-2008

She opted against selling off pictures of her baby daughter to the highest bidder. But at last, the very first photos of Halle Berry with Nahla Ariela Aubry have been released!

The 41-year-old “Catwoman” actress was seen carrying her little girl around in Los Angeles on Thursday (July 17) – with her mother, Judith Ann, nearby to help out with her granddaughter.

Nahla, which means “Honeybee” in Arabic, was born on Sunday March 16th, 2008.

She’s the first child for the Oscar-winning actress and her 32-year-old model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry.

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