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Worldwide Wednesday: The 25 Hottest New Jersey Women

Worldwide Wednesday: The 25 Hottest New Jersey Women

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Worldwide Wednesday: The 25 Hottest New Jersey Women

If you're planning to tune in to MTV for Jersey Shore tonight, don't. Given the show's season finale was last Wednesday, there will be no "T-SHIRT TIIIIME" and no excessive "GTL" until Season 3 gears up in January. Before you get upset and pull a Ronnie, relax: We have Jersey's hottest "grenades" to tide you over. But you should know that these aren't just your quickie shorehouse chicks. Honestly, we're even going out on a limb and saying these girls also have a modicum of decorum. Not to mention, they were born and bred (or at least born or bred) in the Garden State, unlike 99% of the cast. With that said, click the jump and check out the 25 hottest actual New Jersey women.

#25. Mira Sorvino

Hometown: Tenafly
Claim to fame: Sure, you may remember her as the quirky Romy White in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, but Sorvino has an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite under her belt too. We're guessing she had a tough time bringing home dudes to dad, being that she's the daughter of gangster-flick mainstay Paul Sorvino (who played crime boss Paul Cicero in Goodfellas).

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#24. Kirsten Dunst

Hometown: Point Pleasant


Claim to fame: Kirsten gets steady work, but her role in the Spider-Man series as the love interest of the softer-than-baby-shit Tobey Maguire is what really put her on the map. Oh, and Kirsten: we know you're all about that girl-next-door steez, but more dark sexy pics like this, please.

#23. Kelly Ripa

Hometown: Stratford


Claim to fame: Daytime's reigning hottie from The Regis and Kelly Show just doesn't seem to age at all. She's the ultimate MILF who seems to be as funny as she is hot, and we can only hope our wife looks this good after three kids. *Clenches hands together and prays*.

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#22. Laura Prepon

Hometown: Watchung


Claim to fame: Things have slowed down for Prepon since her role as the wise-cracking Donna Pinciotti on That '70s Show , but with all the residuals coming in from re-runs and DVD sales, we figure she's doing a lot better than most people.

#21. Jane Krakowski

Hometown: Parsippany


Claim to fame: Jane plays Jenna Maroney, the air-headed blond foil to Tracy Morgan on 30 Rock. Not that we tune into Tina Fey's ultra witty and erudite Emmy-winning comedy each week for this sort of thing, but Jane's got some spectacular twos.

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#20. Tawny Cypress

Hometown: Point Pleasant


Claim to fame This former Rescue Me and Heroes actress from Point Pleasant is a walking Benetton ad. She

#19. Tara Reid

Hometown: Wyckoff


Claim to fame: Either the American Pie franchise or for being a spectacular bad-plastic-surgery-having drunken trainwreck. Whichever, but she's pretty consistently entertaining on at least a couple of levels.

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#18. Meryl Streep

Hometown: Summit


Claim to fame: We, too, thought she'd be from Manhattan. But no, the Oscar-winner and arguably most prolific actress of our generation, and the generation before it, and the generation before that, is from a humble town in the Garden State. The state must be so proud.

#17. Ashley Tisdale

Hometown: West Deal


Claim to fame: From High School Musical to Hellcats, the 25 year-old will never leave school. We wonder if she's caught on that she's being typecast. Welp, at least we can watch her with the reassurance that she's of age.

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#16. Lauryn Hill

Hometown: South Orange


Claim to fame: One of the greatest females to ever pick up a mic. Fuck you, Rohan.

#15. Katrina Bowden

Hometown: Wyckoff


Claim to fame: Katrina's character on 30 Rock, Ceri the assistant, only comes on for a few glimpses each episode. Tina Fey, you horrible tease.

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#14. Kate French

Hometown: Flemington


Claim to fame: On The L Word, she played a character supposedly based on Lindsay Lohan. In real life, she has yet to crash her car into a tree and date Wilmer Valderrama and/or Samantha Ronson.

#13. Piper Perabo

Hometown: Toms River


Claim to fame: "Jersey" in Coyote Ugly traded in slinging beer bottles behind a bar for pistols, hand-to-hand combat, and a bazooka in Covert Affairs—unless, that is, she was undercover this whole time. *shrugs* We'd believe any lie told by a pretty girl.

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#12. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Hometown: Cliffwood Beach


Claim to fame: She was the Regina George of the '90s as the Queen B in She's All That. Since then, she's made a career out of recurring TV roles in Prison Break and Two and a Half Men. yes, we made a Mean Girls reference.

#11. Sammi Giancola

Hometown: Hazlet


Claim to fame: A NJ countdown wouldn't be complete with a Jersey Shore cast mate. Enter: the only cast member from New Jersey, "Sammi Sweetheart." Luckily for this countdown, she's arguably also the hottest.

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#10. Ashley Dupre

Hometown: Beachwood


Claim to fame: After milking (pause) ex-NY Gov Spitzer for $1,000 an hour, Dupree became the world's most famous (and possibly richest) hooker. Heidi Fleiss would be proud.

#9. Naturi Naughton

Hometown: East Orange


Claim to fame: Born and raised in East Orange, Naturi showed future expelled girl-group members how to salvage their careers: Let those notorious twos breathe on the big screen!

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#8. Ali Larter

Hometown: Cherry Hill


Claim to fame: After short stints in TV, Ali was willing to do anything to break into the movie business, and with that the whip cream bikini from Varsity Blues was born. We wonder what she

#7. Deanna Russo

Hometown: Bernardsville


Claim to fame: Survey says: the now-canceled Knight Rider reboot, a season of Rescue Me, a guest stint on Gossip Girl, and this picture that just made you Google her.

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#6. Sheetal Sheth

Hometown: Phillipsburg


Claim to fame: She's a household name at film festivals, though in your own, you probably haven't heard about her until now. Rent/stream/whatever The World Unseen and/or I Can't Think Straight and thank us later.

#5. Vida Guerra

Hometown: Perth Amboy



Claim to fame: You may know Vida from her many ass-tastic pictorial spreads, but we remember her most fondly for her short lived music career.

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#4. Vera Farmiga

Hometown: Passaic


Claim to fame: After we saw a glimpse of her rear cabin during her "layover" with George Clooney, she wasn't the only thing to go Up in the Air. So what if she used a butt double? The feeling in our pants was authentic.

#3. Anne Hathaway

Hometown: Millburn


Claim to fame: This New Jerseyan (by way of Brooklyn) manages to get herself better roles every year, like last year

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#2. Zoe Saldana

Hometown: Passaic


Claim to fame: Hmmmm, either being the nine-foot blue chick who had sex through her hair in Avatar or the tease rolling around in Calvin Klein underwear on TV. Both were (understandably) equally unforgettable.

#1. Christina Milian

Hometown: Jersey City


Claim to fame: This Jersey City native may have worn more than a couple of dudes' chains, but she

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