World's Hottest Women?
I am just fully aware that Maxim's "Table of Hotness" ends a year old understanding that it's considered mean-spirited from the extreme to comment negatively on the woman's looks and so i won't do it, but, c'mon! The 93rd hottest woman on earth? Out of maybe 3 or 4 billion eligible females? On a single list as Tomei, Watson, and Montag? About the same list as Taylor Swift and Jessica Biel and Angelina Jolie? Top list
As the late Gary Coleman would have said, "Gimme some slack!"
Just as it's crude to demean a girl's looks, isn't it rude to insult the intelligence of females and men alike by including someone of at the best average pulcritude on a report on hottest women exclusively for political reasons, namely that her husband was president and Maxim was sucking up?
Perhaps it boils down to Maxim's definition of "hot," which the British men's magazine doesn't define.
Call me outdated but using any criteria, I might never label our previous First Lady, Laura Bush, as hot. I'd describe her as very pretty, dignified, lady-like, and chic but never as hot. That classification, regardless of whether it doesn't apply to Mrs. Obama, no longer has enough line in describing the wife from the president of the United States.
Apparently, though, Maxim didn't agree.
The wife of the president of France, former model Carla Bruni, can be an entirely different matter since she once made her living when you're hot.