Kate Beckinsale Esquire’s Sexiest Woman of Year

Kate Beckinsale is Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive for 2009. Hm. At least it wasn’t Megan Fox, right? Or Olivia Wilde. Although I kind of think Olivia Wilde and Kate Beckinsale are about on par as far as general talent. Meaning, I think they’re both pretty girls, but I don’t really get what all the fuss is about. Sigh. At least Kate has a really lovely, curvy-athletic figure. For this honor, Kate follows in the footsteps of Scarlett Johansson, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie and Jessica Biel, amongst others.

Esquire has a short little two-minute behind-the-scenes video of Kate’s photo shoot, in case anyone wants to watch Kate writhing around in her underwear, high heels and fur coat. On top of a kitchen counter. With water boiling on the stove top. Kate is such a fire hazard.

In the profile, Kate drops curses and fabulous gutter talk from the first moment. I have to admit – I find Kate rather bland and unappealing in films, but she’s a pretty good interview. She drops stuff on the reporter like “F-ck, it’s hot in here” and “Were you worried that there would be a G-spot orgasm class in the corner?” After the interviewer reads from his list of what he finds sexy in a woman (smoking, drinking, attitude, etc), Kate responds: “I do eat meat, I don’t smoke, I don’t really drink, I do sing. I don’t sing well, however. Given that I can’t sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I’m not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?” Here some more of Kate’s greatest