Motherhood looks good on Penelope Cruz.
The Spanish actress and mum-of-two has been crowned Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive for 2014.
While sitting down with the men’s mag writer, Nick Jones the actress manages to charm him despite keeping tight lipped about her family and her new film with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
“She is impossibly beautiful,” Jones writes in the November issue. “When she walks into a room, men start walking into furniture.”
Adding, “Over the course of a long lunch, Cruz looks like a thousand different women. She flips her hair, or she shifts in her chair, or she creases her forehead or widens her eyes, and these alone are enough to transform her. It feels like watching close-up magic, an actress playing every possible part and well enough to be confounding.”
While she wouldn’t discuss her upcoming onscreen project Cruz was happy to talk about the struggles she has had in the past finding herself off-screen.
“I’ve played a lot of tricks on myself. I’ve made it hard for me sometimes, especially in my teens and twenties,” the Vicky Cristina Barcelona star told the mag. “I had an attraction to drama. Most of us have that, especially if you are an artist — you feel like you are tempted to explore the darkness. I could not be less interested now. For me, the most attractive, charming, cool, fun, interesting thing — how could I call it? A plan.”
The Oscar-winner’s plan includes her husband, Javier Bardem, whom she met at age 17 but did not marry until four years ago, and of course her children, Leo, 3 and daughter Luna, 14 months.
When the glossy tried to touch on the subject of her family the actress confidently replied: “That is for us.”
With looks as attractive as her effervescent personality, we take a look back at the razzle-dazzle the Spanish star brings to the red carpet.
The Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has been crowned Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive for 2014 and the mother-of two looks incredible in her sexy spread for the glossy.
Penelope Cruz looks stunning in just about anything, and this pink Giambattista Valli gown she wore to the 2014 Academy Awards was no exception.
The actress is known for selecting show-stopping gowns that accentuate her sexy, slender frame, just like this lacy black number she wore in late 2013.
Penelope and her sister Monica attended a dinner for L’Agent by Agent Provocateur and Net A Porter in London in October 2013, just four months after Penelope gave birth to her daughter, Luna.
Lady in red: Penelope Cruz attends a photocall for The Counselor at The Dorchester in London in late 2013.
Penelope wore Chanel Haute Couture to the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.
Penelope in the ink blue Yves Saint Laurent gown she wore to VH1’s 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.
The star in Chanel Haute Couture at the Goya Cinema Awards in 2009.
The Oscar-winner in Ralph Lauren at the world premiere of Nine in 2009.
Penelope Cruz showed off her God-given curves and ample cleavage in this blush-pink halter gown with a sexy thigh slit at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of Twice Born.
Penelope Cruz glittered on the arm of her husband, Javier Bardem at the afterparty for the Royal World Premiere of ‘Skyfall’ at Tate Modern in London.
Penelope Cruz attends the 2013 Campari Calendar unveiling cocktail party at the Campari Headquarters in Milan, Italy in a ravishing red gown.
The actress wore a design by the late L’Wren Scott to the Elegy premiere at the 58th Berlinale Film Festival in 2008.
The actress won many admirers in this cerulean blue gown she wore to the Oscars in 2011.
The Spanish actress was the darling of the Oscars when she accepted her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona in this vintage Pierre Balmain Haute Couture gown.
