Halle Berry was named the sexiest woman alive by Esquire magazine in its November issue, here is what the actress had to say:
“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.” More on Interview & photos… 
Ashanti is featured on the cover of 
Today’s Black Woman magazine as “The Year’s Biggest Comeback Story. And Jennifer Hudson
graces the cover of Jet magazine and discusses her upcoming movie The Secret Lives of Bees, her engagement and why she would never go Hollywood: The recently engaged 27-year-old shared exclusive details with Jet magazine about how her fiancé, Harvard-educated attorney David Otunga, popped the question and what he asked her mother. He proposed and gave me a ring, said Hudson of the 5-carat Neil Lane platinum ring,
while refuting gossip that her engagement is a publicity stunt. It was very romantic; he’s a very unique, different individual. I am happy. But the good news doesn’t stop there. Armed with a debut CD and a starring role in the soon-to-be released movie, “The Secret Life of Bees,” Hudson
says she’s especially excited about the film’s message. It’s a film about togetherness and sisterhood. At the hardest times, those women came together and showed what we could do if we all just come together.
