Posted on 06/01/2004 3:58:27 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Film legend Audrey Hepburn has been named the most naturally beautiful woman of all time by a panel of experts.
Three Australians featured in the first 10 out of 100 beauties, actress Cate Blanchett, who came in third, singer Natalie Imbruglia and model Elle MacPherson.
Princess Diana came in 12th.
Hepburn, the star of Roman Holiday and Breakfast At Tiffany's, topped the poll of beauty editors, make-up artists, fashion editors, model agencies and fashion photographers who were asked to choose their top 10 beauties from the list of 100 compiled by the drinks firm Evian.
The women were chosen for their "embodiment of natural beauty, healthy living, beautiful on the inside and out, with great skin and a natural glow to their personality, as well as their complexion", Evian said.
Hepburn was joined in the top five by current US film star Liv Tyler, Blanchett, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie and the fifties icon turned princess Grace Kelly.
"Audrey Hepburn is the personification of natural beauty," said Elle beauty director Rosie Green.
"She has a rare charm and inner beauty that radiates when she smiles. Her skin looks fresh in all her films and her personality really shines through as someone warm and lively."
More than 76 per cent of the beauty experts who voted in the survey mentioned Hepburn in their top 10.
The survey also showed that while 32 per cent of the icons placed in the number one spot by panel members were blondes, 22 per cent redheads and 46 per cent brunettes.
"People who are confident without a scrap of make-up and look healthy, happy and glowing, seem like natural beauties to me," Eleonore Crompton, of Heat magazine.
Alright, where's Helen Thomas?
Right, Hedy Lamar!
Madonna? Freakin' Madonna! Now it's a joke!
Grace Kelly should have been either number 1 or 2. Halle Berry is 3. The others.....ehhh?!?
Prairie
Be careful...she bites! [arllll!]
I assumed you'd be all over this.
Pretty-ugly, maybe?
One vote for Ava Gardner (p.s. I'm 30 years old).
Beauty speaks for itself...
I am, I am, Lemme Catch Up!
"Cleopatra was reputedly not a physical beauty (forget Liz Taylor's 1963 bosom), "
Speaking of forgetting Liz Taylor's 1963 bosom, looks like that's not all of Liz they forgot. I've read this list over 3 times and unless I'm having some sort of a brain freeze I don't see Liz Taylor on it at all. That really is surprising since some have held her in the top position for many years.
Who is she?
Tiffini Theissen. 90210 Fame, and a Kickboxer to boot!
I guess they had to make room for Madonna and Uma Thurmon.
I didn't recognize her as a blonde........
Wasn't she also on Saved By the Bell with Zach, Screech and that skank from the movie The Stripper?
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