Who's the new Sexiest Woman in the World? Megan Fox

"Transformers" star Megan Fox took top honors on the FHM annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World list.

Runners up: Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba (who won last year), followed by Elisha Cuthbert, Scarlett Johansson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Hilary Duff, Tricia Helfer, Blake Lively and Kate Beckinsale.

Fox's rise has been slightly meteoric. She debuted on the list in 2006 at No. 68, but moved up to No. 65 in 2007. Jumping 35 spots in a year is quite an achievement.

What changed? The "Transformers" movie gave thousands of teenage boys a chance to see her Angelina Jolie-esque script tattoos: a poem on her ribcage and a Shakespeare-inspired quote on her right shoulder.

"We will all laugh at gilded butterflies"? Maybe it's taken out of context, but I don't get it.

Curiously, Angelina Jolie dropped to No. 12 this year. Factor: too many  pregnancies? 

Paris Hilton was a mere No. 77, while her big-bottomed pal Kim Kardashian was No. 17!

What was that crack Paris made about Kim's sizable rear looking like cottage cheese in a trash bag? How about some ketchup on that cheese, Paris!

But poor Britney Spears was literally at the bottom of the babe barrel at No. 100.

Don't worry, Brit. There's no place to go but up!

Photo: Megan Fox took the top slot. But what does that tattoo mean? Theories?
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Comments

[Bill]

King Lear, Act V, Scene 3

KING LEAR
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, //and laugh
At gilded butterflies//, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.

[Scott in Tampa, FL (COUNT FL VOTES!!)]

To go along with tthakkar's answer, the word "gilded" can mean 'deceptively pleasing' or 'covered with blood'. When both of these definitions are applied to the two other daughters, it shows that Lear is 'laughing' at them because of their 'false fronts', but it also holds the darker meaning that Lear's and Cornelia's blood is on the heads of the other two daugthers.

It could be possible that it is referring to ollywood itself. The Beautifully Fake. It may hold a more personal meaning to MF but I am sure it stems from being Fake/Hollywoodian-esque.

FUN.

[Case]

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies because butterflies are already so beautiful that adding extra ornamentation to them is just plain silly. As a tattoo I think it's an allegory on the ridiculous need of many gorgeous women to make themselves more attractive by artificial means.

[Alan]

King Lear, Act V, scene iii

[DA]

Tattoo means she's an idiot.

[Alan]

King Lear, Act V, scene iii

[Pretty but smarter]

Who cares!

Could we have something besides this silliness about air-headed celebrities and people who are "famous" for being famous?

How about, "Who is the smartest person in the world" or "Who is the most accomplished"?

When the looks go (and they always do) all one has left is what's between the ears!

Show me a celebrity who cultivates that and I'll show you a keeper.

Pretty is as pretty does.

[tomk]

DOES MEGAN "FOX" WINNING THIS CONTEST PROVE "sexy" is in inverse ratio to "talented"? And who voted? 12-year-old boys? Convicted sexual predators? 30-something males who still live with their parents?

[Begalke]

It is an apparent reference to Shakespeare's King Lear:

'Come, let's away to prison:
We too alone will sing like birds I' the cage;
When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies...'