Minka Kelly and Her Fantastic Abs are Equire's Sexiest for 2010
She's beautiful. She's athletic. She's worked gunshot wounds as a surgical nurse. She can act. And you've already fallen in love with her, back when she was a cheerleader. Now fall for her with these two videos, plus more below and in the November issue of Esquire...
Growing Up
"Done with the twenties. I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff. It just feels nice to be at peace with yourself. I think my thirtieth birthday gave me permission to have all that. The twenties were a pain in the ass - figuring it all out. What am I doing? Where do I go?"
On the Particulars of Being the Sexiest Woman Alive
"I've never done a sexy photo shoot before. I've never really honestly tapped into that side. It was really liberating. It was exciting. I would look at the pictures, like, that's me?"
On Her Image
"Hopefully people will see that I'm not just a 17-year-old cheerleader from Friday Night Lights."
On Experience
"No matter what you're doing, live it. Make an experience. Have fun. Relate to someone. Take them in. Learn. Right? Or else you're wasting your time. And time is precious. I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit. I've lived a lot at my young age."
On Her Mother
"She - for most of my life, she was a dancer. An exotic dancer. She was a stripper. Um, so she would come home at like three, four o'clock in the morning, and sometimes she would have a really great night, and so she would wake me up in the middle of the night and we'd go to Ralphs and go grocery shopping. And that was so much fun. We'd have the whole grocery store to ourselves, and we would have a blast and buy a hundred dollars in groceries. And it was just the best day ever. The best day."
On Her Father
"That's what my dad is for me. 'Dad, am I gettin' a little out of order?' 'Yes, Mink, you're out of order.' He never judges me for any mistake I make, he just tells me when I'm making it. And I trust him. I thank him on a daily basis. I know how lucky I am. I see too many people that don't have that and my heart breaks for them."
On Her Boyfriend, and Saying Thank You
"My boyfriend noticed that about me, too. He's the same way, and he said it was a good way to judge someone's character. It's actually unfortunate, in a way, that you would notice that. It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone. The guy clearing our plates is a person. I don't care if you're sweeping the floor. I don't care if you're cleaning my toilet. Not that I have someone to clean my toilet - I clean my own toilet."
On Her Ideal Night
"My ideal night is dinner at home and a movie, glass of wine. Every time I'm in my sweats and I get my blanket and my pillows and I'm on the couch about to watch a movie, I find myself saying, This is the life."
On Food
"I know when I'm cooking for someone I love, I put my heart into it, and there's passion that goes into it, and then you're watching them take each bite. But what you can't do is ruin it by saying, Oh, it was supposed to be like this, it's not perfect - you ruin it."
On Success
"Anyone can struggle. Anyone can want to make it and try to make it and scrape the door down and hustle. But once you become a little bit successful, that's more challenging to handle than struggle."
On What Her Thirties Will Bring
"I don't know. And I'm glad I don't know."
On Dancing
"When I was little, when I was alone I would listen to music and make up dance routines. I'd have a whole performance in my room, by myself, to music. Fully choreographed. I entertained myself that way. Copying music videos, memorizing songs. Salt-N-Pepa - all their songs I know verbatim. Still. And En Vogue. I would have a tape player and I would pause it, write the words down, play, listen to a few words, pause it, write it down. Until I had the whole song written down. And then I would listen to it and look at what I wrote until I had it memorized. Obsessive little girl. I used to record the radio and make my own mix tapes. You put the tape player on record and then hit pause, and then when you hear a song you like, you let go of the pause button. Remember that?"
Prince
"Number one: Purple Rain. Love it. It does not get old, I'm telling you. I am dead serious. From the day it came out - I saw it at the movies, and ever since, if I'm cleaning the house, or doing things and want something in the background, I have Purple Rain on. I wanted to be Apollonia."
On Going Out
"I love, love live music. I love the Hollywood Bowl, I love tiny little clubs - I just love live music. Friday Night Lights was filmed entirely in Austin, and there were some bands that I discovered in Austin at live shows, and then I got their CDs and they weren't as good. And I'd tell my friends, 'But you gotta see them live!'"
On Her Voice
"Can I sing? No. I mean, if the song is loud enough in the car, I sound just like whoever it is, of course. In the first season of Friday Night Lights my voice was very high-pitched. I came out talking like a little girl. And I watched it and thought, Oh, dear. I worked on it, all by myself. I went to a couple of vocal coaches, but really I just was mindful of it, and I would listen, and speak from my diaphragm as opposed to my throat. Because it would drive me crazy."
On Money
"What happened to Levi's for 60 bucks? Five-hundred dollars is too much to pay for jeans. I think 230 should be the max. But I remember when like Paper Denim & Cloth came out and jeans were one-, two-hundred bucks, and it was like, What?"
more pictures & full article : http://www.esquire.com/women/the-sexiest-woman-alive/sexy-minka-kelly-pics-1110#ixzz1243lpBZg
Can't wait for Leighton to hit on her in THE ROOMMATE <3
