Congratulations to Jennifer Lawrence, who has just been named FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World for 2014. She must be celebrating in a bath of Dom Pérignon somewhere, because here is the ultimate affirmation that – as the lads’ mag puts it – “men the world over have fallen in love with her kooky charm”.
It’s comforting to think that personality is now the main criteria in the competition, voted for by readers of the magazine. It must mean that we’ve come a really long way from when, in 2012, Tulisa Contostavlos won and thousands of passionate Britons actually took the time out of their lives to write in to FHM to “complain”. As FHM themselves said, “How could – in a world of 3,301,112,087 women – Tulisa possibly be the world’s hottest?”
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Their answer? “Democracy.” In this sense, you could look at FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women as the great equaliser – a place where crap North London popstars and obscure Made In Chelsea space-fillers can rub shoulders with the golden girls of the Hollywood A-List (and, weirdly, cartoons). But if you really, really think about it, perhaps it’s also true that there’s nothing very equal about men rating women from 1 to 100 on the basis of their looks.
Anyway, we decided that it was unfair to merely celebrate the women of the world, and that the male (and occasionally female) readers of FHM deserve a taste of that Dom Pérignon life, too. So here’s the big list the world’s been waiting for – FHM’s 100 Sexiest Readers of 2014 – revealed!
