It’s impossible to look at Rihanna‘s new photo shoot — she’s covered in mud, with a few strategically placed leaves placed on her body – and say she isn’t hotter than ever. So is it any wonder that Esquire magazine has named her the “Sexiest Woman Alive” in its Nov. 2011 issue?

Model and actress Brooklyn Decker shows off her awe inspiring body in nothing but a sheet on the cover of February’s Esquire. The sexy swimsuit model is making the leap to film in the  upcoming movie Just Go With It, which also stars Adam Sandler, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston. We’re pretty sure every guy is going to want to get their hands on this issue!

Brooklyn also opened up to Self about her battles with food and how her father stepped into help her! “I was always with other aspiring models. There were bingers and purgers, and everyone watched each other eat,” she explained. “It freaked me out. I did juice fasts and crazy diets and ended up gaining weight. My father did an intervention and got me to stop obsessing about everyone else and wrecking my body.”

Brooklyn was also kind enough to offer some little advice for guys: “Men need to learn to put everything on the table. And when it comes to the game playing, enough.” She adds, “Men could get ahead of women if they’d just throw everything on the table. Cut to the chase.”

Happily married to tennis pro Andy Roddick and looking better than ever, it seem like Brooklyn has it all figured out!

To read more about Brooklyn and to see even more sexy pics of the model, check out the upcoming issue of Esquire when it hits newsstands!

-Jessica Booth

She loves to wake-board. She’s not afraid to skydive and she knows how to kick butt! Friday Night Lights actress Minka Kelly is Esquire magazine‘s “Sexiest Woman Alive 2010!”

“You wouldn’t want to jump out of that,” Minka asks as she looks up at a plane during her interview with Esquire. “That would be incredible, and what a beautiful day for it. Live in fear if you want to!”

“I’m so excited to be a woman [and be 30 years old],” Kelly gushes. “It is a big one [turning 30] and I love it. I think it’s the most exciting birthday I think I’ve ever had. 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?”

But it hasn’t always been an easy life for Minka. “My mom lived a fast life,” she shares of her childhood. “It was all about what we could do to have fun with nothing. 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.”

Her hardships have taught her to be thankful for everything life has given her and she makes sure to show her gratitude in every way possible. “It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone,” Minka says. “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.”

And when someone acts rude, Minka just won’t have it. “I’m a very nice girl, but nobody pushes me around,” Minka states. If someone tries to mess with her or her friends, “that’s when you’ll see a whole other side of me!”

- Lindsey DiMattina

The former ’3rd Rock from the Sun’ star sits down with ‘Details’ to promote his upcoming film ‘Inception,’ costarring Leonardo DiCaprio!

Child star Joseph Gordon-Levitt is all grown up and showing off his adult side in the August issue of Details! In the magazine, Joseph talks about his struggle making the segway from sitcom to film roles, and his decision to finally give up one of his biggest vices!

“When I was in high school, I loved smoking weed,” Joseph tells the mag. “I loved it. But I cut myself to once a month. That was my rule.” Seems like a move that is definitely paying off for the actor!

Joseph says of his years following the cancellation of his hit NBC sitcom, “I was scared and depressed for a while. Not that I had any reason to fucking be depressed—I mean, I was going to college and everything. It was not like I was hungry. But absolutely. I was like, ‘Shit, I don’t know if anybody’s gonna let me act. They’ll let me be in another sitcom, but I don’t want to do that.”

Less than 10 years later he is a Golden Globe nominee starring in what will most likely be this summer’s biggest film and a rumored front runner for the next Batman flick. Not too bad!

Check out the video of Joseph’s shoot above and be sure to read more in Details, on newsstands now!

-Chris Spargo

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Who do YOU think makes a better house-husband for Gisele — Tom Brady or Leonardo DiCaprio?

It’s easier than ever to comment! Live out loud!

Gisele Bündchen is too busy earning the big bucks as the world’s hottest supermodel to do mundane tasks like ironing, so naturally she’s trained the men in her life to do her chores! Both her hubby, Tom Brady, and ex-boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio, have demonstrated their learned domestic abilities in recent photo shoots while both attempted to display their way around an iron.

32-year-old New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was the first to show off his mad ironing skills in the Nov. 2009 issue of GQ. Gisele’s hubby of nearly a year (and father of their two-month-old son, Benjamin) posed in the couple’s Boston home laundry room, smiling y to the camera as he smoothed out his button-down shirt.

Now, months later, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 35, (Gisele’s former flame from 2001-2005) hammed it up in a similar pose for Esquire‘s March 2010 issue. Only, unlike Tom, he’s not actually ironing anything — Leo just looks pretty in his Dolce and Gabbana suit and Modo shades.

We smell a little rivalry going on — and the smoke is definitely coming from Leo’s board.

Nevertheless, we’re most impressed with Gisele’s training talents. Somehow, she managed to domesticate two of the hunkiest guys on the planet! (No mean feat if you ask us!)

Who in your relationship does the work (and wears the pants) around YOUR house?

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Ben, clearly you need to start watching Gossip Girl … and fast!

Has Ben Affleck been living under a rock? You’d think so, given that he had no idea who Blake Lively when she was right in front of his face.

Although the 22-year-old Gossip Girl starlet eventually scored a role playing the foil to his FBI agent in his new crime drama, The Town, Ben, 37, thought Blake was just another pretty face when she auditioned.

“This girl came in, and no one had said to me beforehand, ‘Hey, look for this person.’ And obviously she was really attractive, and so I thought, Oh, here comes some blond girl,” Ben recalls to Esquire, which features Blake on its February 2010 cover. “She came in, did one reading, and just crushed it.”

How so? Turns out she shed her Manhattan elite persona off of her and adopted one heck of a Boston accent. “Really good,” says Ben (the Boston native should know). “I was sort of stunned. I said, ‘Jeez, you know, that was really f—king good. Who are you?’ She didn’t mention that she was on a television show.”

Tsk, tsk, Ben. Blake shouldn’t have had to tell you who she was. All you have to do these days is turn on a TV or open a magazine and you’re pretty much guaranteed to run into a photo of the leggy blond.

Now, about that rock … maybe it’s time to crawl out from under? Just a suggestion, but we guarantee you’ll like the look of daylight — especially when it looks as good as Blake!

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Carrie Underwood, why can’t you just say you’re sorry to Taylor Swift?  Everyone remembers when you cut off Brad Paisley while he was congratulating Taylor at the Country Music Awards on Nov. 11, interrupting him to bring the attention back to yourself!

And while you look great in Esquire, when you open up about what you’ve learned from life, you blame your rudeness on everyone else!  You say “I’ve learned … People can take your words and make them into something awful and something you never meant it to be.” Either apologize, or stop talking about it!

Even after you were so mean, you tried to say YOUR feelings were hurt! “That was really hurtful,” you tell Tom Junod. “My brain would never operate that way at all.”

Why is it that your brain can’t operate to say “I’M SORRY!?”