Every week in our Worldwide Wednesday post, Complex pays tribute to the cornucopia of women from around the globe. We try our best to represent all nationalities and ethnicities, but there's one crucial group of women we haven't focused on yet that everyone can agree on: multiracial women. Globalization never looked so good!
See, in the future, everyone will be multiracial. But for now, we'll have to appreciate these pioneering dimes, who all have ancestors from multiple continents. Since one of our favorite chicks Cassie—who is African-American, Mexican, West Indian and Filipino—turns 23 today, we thought it would be a fitting time to pay tribute to this often-overlooked sub-set of sexy. Throw on your pro-miscegenation t-shirts, pull up a chair and enjoy our picks for The 10 Hottest Multiracial Women...
#10: ESTHER BAXTER
ETHNICITY: African-American, Norwegian, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Indian.
CLAIM TO FAME: The green eyed video model shot to fame after her feature in Petey Pablo's "Freek-A-Leek" video back in 2004. She was also featured in Ludacris's "Number One Spot," Nelly's "Shake Ya Tailfeather" and Kanye West's "The New Workout Plan." Then all of a sudden she decided to get all serious on us and retired in 2007 at the age of 22 to attend college and (we assume) prepare for her recent Complex 7 Interview.
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#9: VANESSA HUDGENS
ETHNICITY: Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, Irish and Native American.
CLAIM TO FAME: Most of her fans know her as the Disney Queen who sang her way through the TV/Movie series High School Musical, but we got familiar with her (twice) after her "body of work" leaked to the 'net. Google!
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#8: NICKI MINAJ
ETHNICITY: African, Trinidadian and Indo-Asian.
CLAIM TO FAME: The hottest chick in the hip-hop game hails from Queens and is down with both Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane. Despite her name, Miss Minaj does not have any French in her. Sacrebleu!
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#7: STEPHANIE JACOBSEN
ETHNICITY: Portuguese, Chinese, Norwegian and English.
CLAIM TO FAME: This Australian actress made her debut in the U.S as a sci-fi badass in Battlestar Galactica: Razor and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. We've seen her tough side, now we can't wait to see her play a sexy character in CW's upcoming series Melrose Place.
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#6: ROSARIO DAWSON
ETHNICITY: Puerto Rican, Black, Cuban, Irish and Native American.
CLAIM TO FAME: You already know we've had a thing for Rosie since her Kids days (we were 16 too, give us a break). She's NYC in the flesh!
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#5: KELIS
ETHNICITY: African-American, Chinese and Puerto Rican.
CLAIM TO FAME: Before she was cashing $45,000 child support checks from Nas, this sexy Harlem native made some great records with producers like The Neptunes and Bangladesh.
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#4: JAMIE GUNNS
ETHNICITY: English, Jamaican, and Indian.
CLAIM TO FAME: This veteran of Complex's 2007 Style & Design special was also recently featured in our weekly Model Monday spotlight. We're gonna go ahead and keep covering her 'til you get sick of looking at her.
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#3: CASSIE
ETHNICITY: African-American, Mexican, West Indian and Filipino.
CLAIM TO FAME: Her modeling gigs are on point, she shaves the side of head just to showcase her "Don't Give a Fuck" attitude, has leaked nude photos and two Complex covers...seriously, what hasn't Cassie done? Oh that's right, she hasn't sold us on the whole singing career thing. Next single is definitely the one!
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#2: NICOLE SCHERZINGER
ETHNICITY: Filipino, Russian and Hawaiian.
CLAIM TO FAME: She took the world by storm with her
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#1: ADRIANA LIMA
ETHNICITY: French, Portuguese, Inidigenous Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian
CLAIM TO FAME: In 2006, this unfuckwittable Brazilian model told GQ that she was still a virgin. Three years later, and she's pregnant with her first child. It was fun while it lasted!
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