Minka Kelly is named Esquire's sexiest woman alive 2010

The team at Esquire spends a lot of time considering sexy women, but they want to make it clear -- Minka Kelly takes the cake, despite a couple of the mag's additional surveys on who might be the hottest thing to don lingerie.

Though 2010 saw nods to buxom "Mad Men" actress Christina Hendricks in the mag's May issue on women, and victory for model Brooklyn Decker in a five-round reader-chosen ranking, Kelly makes Esquire's official cut for sexiest woman alive -- like, ever-- for 2010.

"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 30th birthday gave me permission to have all that. The 20s were a pain ... figuring it all out," Kelly said.

Kelly stars in "Friday Night Lights," bowing out this year with its final season, and has appeared on NBC's "Parenthood." She's also the real-life leading lady to New York Yankee Derek Jeter. 

Do you think Kelly is deserving of the honor? Tell us why or why not in the comments section below.

-- Matt Donnelly
Twitter.com/MattDonnelly

Photo: Minka Kelly mugs it in a man's shirt and ladylike undies. Credit: Esquire

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Comments

[MattyP]

This stinka's, smells like Jeter had something to do with this. Let me guess, I'll give Esquire an interview if you make my girlfriend sexiest woman alive since she has nothing else better to do? Minka Kelly is a terrible choice, she is inarticulate, uneducated and most of all, not an accomplished actress. Hey, I know, lets make the Kardashians the sexiest next year. Esquire, congrats, you're officially A JOKE...any day now you'll be bankrupt.

[John]

aMattyP: My, my, my... what an mean, envious little troll you are. Beyond everything else, when would becoming something called the "Sexiest Woman Alive" have anything to do with being articulate, educated, or accomplished?