The 100 Hottest Women of the Complex Decade

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Age: 26
Occupation: Escort
Once a good girl's gone bad, she's gone forever. Need proof? Look no further than Ashley Dupré. She ran away from her privileged Jersey suburb to NYC at 17 and was working as an escort by 19. A few years later, she found herself at the center of the prostitution scandal that brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Even crazier, Girls Gone Wild footage of an underage Dupré surfaced after the story broke. Some may call her trashy, but with an hourly rate of $5,500, we prefer to call her economically sound.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Being crowned "the most famous hooker in America" by The Village Voice after she was outed as Elliot Spitzer's side piece.

Age: 26
Occupation: Actress
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we'd be lying if we didn't go see The Unborn solely off the strength of the movie poster. Was the movie good? We can't remember, but did you see that poster? Future scream queen for sure.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT:
Screaming her head off in the J.J. Abrams' hit Cloverfield and starring in the final season of House.

Age: 25
Occupation: Singer
Forget Jamie Lynn Spears and Ashley Simpson—the crown for coolest (and hottest) pop star sibling has to go Beyonce's baby sis. Unlike the robotic drone of her sister, the single mother isn't afraid to admit she has vices: weed and Corona. As soon as she grows her hair back, we're back on it!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Creeping out of her sister's shadow by posing for our "Women Are Complex, Too" feature in our 10th Anniversary Issue.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
Nevermind the forgettable movies she's made, especially G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Let's talk about how this former model has isn't shy about stripping down in front of a camera whenever she's had the chance for the better part of the past ten years. And for that we thank her. You gotta do something when your husband publicly admits to hittin' off your nanny. Whatever works.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Coming back from a ruined reputation as a homewrecker by dating then-married actor Balthazar Getty.

Age: 32
Occupation: Video Model/Dancer
All hail the queen! Of music videos, that is. Be honest: Before Glo came around, no one knew video girls by name. But after starring in the biggest videos of the 2000's (Jay-Z' "Big Pimpin", DMX "What These Bitches Want") she became a household name.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Besides making "video girl" a viable profession, Ms. Velez completely embarrassed Joe Budden in this classic YouTube video

Age: 33
Occupation: Actress
We weren't particularly drawn to any of the comedies she's starred in over the past ten years—except Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, anyway—but that doesn't matter. All we needed to see was her in the form-fitting Silk Spectre uniform in the film adaptation of Watchmen. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Landing a lead role in the highly anticipated comedy Rock of Ages.

Age: 39
Occupation: Actress
What, you thought her career was over once she dropped the Stamos? Ha! After dumping him, she became our favorite mutant in the X-Men trilogy when she traded clothes for prosthetics and body paint to become Mystique. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing the hottest transsexual, ever, on Ugly Betty. Take that how ever you want.

Age: 29
Occupation: Actress/Model
Devon didn't have to go into modeling or acting—her fam was already paid off her dad's ownership of Benihana—but she was way too bad not to. After replacing Naomi Campbell as the face of Versace at 16, Devon spent the decade modeling for everyone: Chanel, Couture by Karl Lagerfeld, Versace, YSL, and, of course, Baby Phat. She also took her talents to the big screen as a samurai hooker in Sin City. Sky's the limit, baby girl.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing the token Asian girl in 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Age: 41
Occupation: Actress
Ever since she appeared in John Singleton's Baby Boy, the D.C. native, who's not afraid to turn the sexy on, has become one of the most sought after actress in Hollywood, even getting an Oscar nomination for her role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: It was criminally slept on, but Taraji showed she can be as sexy as the rest of 'em in 2007's Talk to Me.

Age: 24
Occupation: Actress/Model
Let's rattle off her "hot girl" qualifications: She's Victoria's Secret model, she gave a lap dance in lingerie for Agent Provocateur, she became a Complex cover girl and she posed nude for the Pirelli Calendar. Do we really need to continue to justify why Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is the idyllic woman?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Being the only part of Transformers: Dark of the Moon that didn't make us nauseous.

Age: 43
Occupation: Actress
The former Friends star took a major L when Angelina Jolie told her, "Brad's just not that into you," but Jennifer Aniston managed to save face by dropping a couple number one movies and somehow getting her body to look better than it did in '94.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Reviving her career by playing a nymphomaniac dentist in Horrible Bosses.

Age: 32
Occupation: Singer
The "wild, singing chick with the hair" first caught our attention back in '99 with her crazy, man hating single "Caught Out There," and continued to produce some of the most distinctive R&B/pop music of the decade.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Redefining the term "Milkshake."

Age: 29
Occupation: Actress
Cuthbert's filmography is far from flawless, but this Canadian puck bunny won us over playing Luke Wilson's underage jumpoff in Old School and a porn star in The Girl Next Door. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Starring in the hit ABC sitcom Happy Endings.

Age: 30
Occupation: Singer
Mary J. Blige can't hold it down forever, so next up to carry to the guttural R&B torch is the two-riffic Oakland representative. Besides the beauty, we love Keyshia 'cause she puts on for her fam: Who else besides Kim K. has gotten her crazy relatives their own reality show?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: The video for her 2008 single "Heaven Sent." Looking at her endowments lets us know there is a God.

Age: 25
Occupation: Actress
No longer jailbait, the girl who turned down modeling because "there's no talent involved" has managed to get herself into a string of movies, including the Johnny Depp-starrer The Rum Diary. If she keeps her nose clean, she may very well wind up on our retrospective next decade too.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Standing up for equal rights by coming out at a 2010 GLAAD event.

Age: 47
Occupation: Actress
Marisa Tomei can do it all: funny, sad, serious, sexy, and trashy. We thought her best days were behind her until we experienced The Wrestler. The cougar-esque Brooklyn born actress had us going through all of the aforementioned emotions all while being naked for most of the film.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Getting a 2009 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Wrestler.

Age: 28
Occupation: Actress
Besides possessing classic film starlet looks, unlike a lot of these other pretty faces populating Hollywood, Olivia Wilde can actually act. Since her breakout role in The O.C., Olivia has steadily built the foundation for a career that will last when (or if) the looks fade. It also helps that she changed her surname from Cockburn to Wilde. Just sayin'.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing Quorra, the sexy "isomorphic algorithm," in Disney's big-budget popcorn flick Tron: Legacy.

Age: 30
Occupation: Athlete
Currently the world's ninth-best female tennis player, Serena has dominated the sport for the past decade, winning Wimbledon four times and bringing home two Olympic gold medals. Rumor has it, she likes being a cougar within the sport too; she's allegedly currently dating 20-year-old Bulgarian tennis pro Grigor Dimitrov.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2009. 

Age: 32
Occupation: Actress
After two horrible video-game movie adaptations, Olga found herself starring alongside Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace as the baddest Bond girl since Halle Berry emerged from the ocean dripping wet.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making us lust after a Bond chick once again.

Age: 40
Occupation: Actress
Since we fell in love with her in Love & Basketball, Stan's beautiful daughter has managed to not only better her career with tasteful, bank-generating roles, she's become best friends with two of the baddest actresses in the game: Nia Long and Gabrielle Union. No byrd gang here, Capo.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Fending off the end of mankind in the star-studded Soderbergh film Contagion.

Age: 32
Occupation: Actress/Singer
Before she became a Complex cover girl, the L.A.-based actress known for her deadpan delivery and alluring eyes was already killing it in Hollywood with roles in classics like (500) Days of Summer and Elf. Not to mention, she's an indie music darling, thanks to her band She & Him.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Besides gracing the cover of Complex, she makes being "adorkably cute" bearable on her hit sitcom New Girl.

Age: 23
Occupation: Actress
In just a few short years, Emma Stone went from Jonah Hill's endearing down-ass chick in Superbad to the woman who can make Ryan Gosling swoon in Crazy, Stupid, Love. Oh, and let's not overlook the fact that she's even made Spider-man (and the actor who plays him) fall for her in the upcoming reboot, The Amazing Spider-man.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Earning respect in Hollywood with the box-office hit and SAG Awards favorite The Help.

Age: 25
Occupation: Actress
Given the fact that she was born while her mother was in prison for participating in a weed smuggling ring, we have to say that (crappy duets with Cobra Starship notwithstanding) Leighton Meester has done pretty well for herself. After bouncing from TV show to TV show, she finally found a hit with Gossip Girl, where she consistently steals the show as the evil (and sexy) Blair Waldorf.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing Minka Kelly's psychotic bunk buddy in The Roommate.

Age: 33
Occupation: Singer
She has dipped in and out of the spotlight, but this cool Canadian chick always made a lasting impression with her unique voice and impeccable looks. Not to mention, her recent collection of sultry Spanish-speaking hits made us want to master the language.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Resurrecting Timbaland's career with her stellar 2006 album Loose.

Age: 39
Occupation: Actress
After dropping out of Charlie's Angels to finish playing Tom Cruise's dazzling dime in Mission Impossible II, the biracial London-born actress dominated the decade in low-key fashion, thanks to roles as diverse as her ethnic makeup.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Her unforgettably heartbreaking performance in the film adaptation of For Colored Girls in 2010.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
Thanks to the epochal HBO series The Sopranos, the NYC native became the ultimate DILF: Daughter I'd Like to (De)Flower. We thought she'd fallen off the face of the earth until she joined the cast of Entourage to play Turtle's (played by her former real-life boyfriend Jerry Ferrara) girlfriend. It's like Chris Rock said after Janet Jackson got with Jermaine Dupri: We all had a chance!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Two words: Meadow Soprano.

Age: 28
Occupation: Singer/Reality TV Star
Aubrey came out of nowhere to parlay a MTV reality-show role into a couple platinum albums with Danity Kane and tabloid infamy. Her whole persona as a floozy is as calculated as a rapper's hard act for the cameras. We know the real deal-and we could care less, as long as she keeps playing the "uninhibited" card.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Appearing on one of the most controversial (but ASME nominated!) Complex covers of all time.

Age: 27
Occupation: Music Video Model
Think back to 2004. You're watching some TV, minding your own business. Then the "Freek-A-Leek" video comes on, and TADOW!—you're obsessed with the busty chick in the blue: a Ms. Esther Baxter, the O.G. video vixen.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making rap videos in the mid-'00s—Petey Pablo's "Freek A Leek", and Nelly's "Shake Ya Tailfeather"—much, much better.

Age: 38
Occupation: Actress
On Battlestar Galactica, where she played a human who was later revealed to be a robot (or Cylon) model, Park made the most intriguing story of man vs. machine since the invention of Sybian adult films.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making the Hawaii 5-0 reboot actually enjoyable to watch.

Age: 26
Occupation: Model
Put in finishing school while she was still playing with Barbies, the half Portuguese, half Singaporean Australian was basically reared from birth to be a model. And it shows. Since starring in the hit TV show Bush Patrol Jessica has appeared in ads for Victoria's Secret, Gap and on the cover this fine publication.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Becoming the sultry voice behind Maybach Music.

Age: 36
Occupation: Actress
When Sacha Baron Cohen isn't dressed up like Borat or Bruno, this is the chick he comes home to, and if she's anything like the nympho she played in Wedding Crashers, Cohen is a lucky lucky man. The laugh out loud inducing Isla had moderate success as an actress, but as far as red heads go these days, she's atop of the food chain. Respek, word to Ali G.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Received a MTV movie award for her breakthrough role in Wedding Crashers.

Age: 37
Occupation: Adult Film Star
Blonde Barbie doll Jenna was the biggest paid sex worker in the biz and even managed to cross over into mainstream, doing film work and creating her own comic.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Rather than list the numerous X-rated videos we've come to adore her in, we'll be classy and say her top moment in the past ten years came when she starred in the soft-core horror flick Zombie Strippers in 2008.

Age: 33
Occupation: Model
She's every troglodyte frat boy's favorite beat piece, but we won't hold that against her (mostly because we've got something else we'd want to hold against her). Seriously though—a real sweetheart surfer girl who's got maybe the greatest pair of natural twos on the planet? We'd do a keg-stand to that.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Two words: Body Paint.

Age: 24
Occupation: Athlete
With three Grand Slam titles, 24 Women's Tennis Association titles altogether and body that looks like it belongs to a supermodel, the Russian pro is the hottest tennis player with some actual credibility. Seriously, just compare her resumé to another sexy tennis pro who's, at this point, more famous for being Enrigue Iglesias' video chick.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Being name the #1 female tennis player in the world four non-consecutive years.

Age: 27
Occupation: Actress
Complex fell in love with Freida when we first screened Slumdog Millionaire and gave her her first look in an American magazine, the Dec/Jan 2008-issue "Hot Complex." Now she's got a L'Oreal campaign and a Woody Allen film under her belt. Coincidence? We think not.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: The Indian model's first movie ever was this little indie joint Slumdog Millionaire. You may have heard of it when it was bhangra dancing away with eight Oscars at the 2008 Academy Awards.

Age: 38
Occupation: Actress/Comedian
First off all, Wiig saved Saturday Night Live from sucking into oblivion with her closet full of characters. Secondly, Wiig put female comedies on the map with her poop and sex filled comedy Bridesmaids. We have her to thank for the inspiration behind the slew of women-driven ensemble comedies (including Bachelorette and Save the Date) coming out this year.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Earning an Oscar nomination for "Best Original Screenplay" with Bridesmaids.

Age: 21
Occupation: Actress
By now, you've seen Jennifer Lawrence's name over a hundred times in the past few months, whether it's scrawled across Tumblr or the New York Times. The Kentucky-native (who isn't shy about getting naked the first time you meet her) has become the new America's Sweetheart with her blockbuster performance in the wildly successful teen series, The Hunger Games.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Earning an Oscar-nomination for Best Actress for her first major Hollywood film, Winter's Bone.

Age: 31
Occupation: Actress
The ultimate combination of down ass chick and world class beauty, the former host of G4's Attack of the Show/Complex cover girl knows comics, sports, and video games, but looks better than Phoebe Cates in a red swimsuit.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Going from the failed NBC sitcom Perfect Couples to the upcoming Aaron Sorkin-written HBO series The Newsroom.

Age: 29
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Keri Hilson's a triple threat: She sings, she writes and she's absolutely, positively, undoubtedly bad. Exhibit A: Our 2009 Style & Design issue that had the sultry songstress all oiled up on the cover. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Her 2009 Style & Design cover had the Internet buzzing. Don't take our word for it, ask Soulja Boy: "Just picked up complex mag with @misskeribaby on the front. o my goodness!!!"

Age: 26
Occupation: Adult Video Star
If you thought Asian girls don't have curves, you need to check out a Maria Ozawa production immediately. Half Japanese, half French-Canadian, Maria has perfect Eurasian features. Maybe that's why she brings in an estimated $8,000 a month.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Shooting her first lesbian scene in 2008. Diversification is key!

Age: 32
Occupation: Singer/Actress
The last few years of her career may not have been too interesting, but when we think of Mya, we automatically remember her in the Carolina blue UNC jersey dress alongside Hova in the "Best of Me" remix video. That video had everyone trying to get the best of her.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Kicking off her acting career with a role in the Screen Actors Guild Award winning Chicago. Hollywood money > music industry money.

Age: 41
Occupation: TV Host
Padma began her career as a model when she was discovered sitting in a cafè in Spain. She's 41 now, but like Jay-Z, she's still the best at what she does. Nowadays, we salivate over her on Bravo's Top Chef. A model chick whose walk is mean, and gets cookin' up in the kitchen? Sounds like the ultimate wifey to us.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Actually receiving an Emmy nomination for "hosting" Top Chef.

Age: 32
Occupation: Actress
A former video girl (Jay-Z's "Streets is Watching," LL Cool J's "Hush"), Dania parlayed her momentum into a number of movie and television roles including X-Men: The Last Stand, American Reunion and Heroes, for which she was nominated for a American Latino Media Arts Award. Who said video girls couldn't get far?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing Kerry Washington's girlfriend in Spike Lee's She Hate Me.

Age: 36
Occupation: Actress
There's something about Charlize. Maybe it's the fact that she's one of the top 10 highest paid actresses in the world. Or the fact that she was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace. But it's probably the fact that even when she went completely butch for her Oscar winning role in Monster we still thought about smashing.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning an Oscar was nice, yeah, but she looked like a male vagabond in Monster. We preferred when she stirred up some critical acclaim again in Young Adult.

Age: 36
Occupation: Actress/Model
Don't judge this Spanish belle by her role in the abomination that was The Spirit—before she became known to Americans in the Adam Sandler flick Spanglish, she had an illustrious Spanish television and film career. Expand your horizons, dun.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making The Spirit exciting for the few minutes she was on screen as the Plaster of Paris.

Age: 44
Occupation: Model/Singer/First Lady
With all due respect to Michelle Obama, the award for hottest First Lady in the world must go to the Italian former high fashion model and singer, Carla Bruni. Despite claiming to prefer polygamy, Bruni settled down with French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Becoming the only First Lady to have sold a nude photo of themselves at an auction. And, come to think of it, the only First Lady to had naked photos in circulation.

Age: 31
Occupation: Singer/Actress
Yeah, Jessica Simpson isn't the brightest bulb in the room, and yeah, she's produced a steady stream of crappy music, movies and reality TV over the last decade, but she's also famous for her double-Ds that are even bigger now that she's pregnant.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Jinxing the Dallas Cowboys. Other than that, her video for "These Boots are Made for Walking."

Age: 31
Occupation: Actress/Model
Formerly Miss Teen USA, Vanessa Minnillo went on to host TRL for a spell before leaving for greener pastures, which included a cameo role in Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer and the lead in Disaster Movie. You gotta start somewhere, we guess.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Marrying a guy from a band she used to stalk as a teeny-bopper: Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees.

Age: 31
Occupation: Actress
The girl who went from being on Buffy to co-producing and starring in her own TV series Dollhouse has put in work over the past 10 years to become a bankable actress without sacrificing her cool. Over here we call that a win/win. She already blessed us by appearing on our Oct/Nov '09 cover, now if she would only drop Vanessa Williams' ex, she'd be perfect.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Becoming a fanboy's wet dream in Tru Calling and Dollhouse.

Age: 32
Occupation: Actress
Late pass: We didn't notice the sexy Iranian/Spanish, Texas-born actress until '05 when she played a two-timing lesbian DJ on HBO's The L Word. Shahi then said that her and Carmen have a lot in common. We hope it's more than their Latin roots.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Starring in her own TV courtroom dramedy Fairly Legal.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
We thought this California raised dime's career would explode after her breakout role in the film Eve's Bayou, but at least she's coasting on a few mainstream guilty pleasures such as Stomp the Yard.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Appearing as one of Hank Moody's sexpot hook-ups in Californication.

Age: 35
Occupation: Adult Film Star
Allow us to speak candidly here: only a few porn stars have consistently kept our interest through the decade, and this half Thai, half English, Montana born freak is hands down the most consistent adult actress in the game, ever since she appeared as Penthouse's "Pet of the Month" in February 2000.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Getting inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2009.

Age: 36
Occupation: Actress
Honestly, if Christina ever wanted a career as a pole dancer (we'd go with "Red Sonya" as a stage name), she'd sell out clubs nationwide. The Mad Men secretary's got stacks like IHOP but legitimate acting talent that actually distracts us from them.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Bringing curves back to the mainstream—and not just any curves. Homegirl's like a Mobius Strip x a spiral staircase.

Age: 29
Occupation: Reality TV Star/Actress
On the first season of The Real World: San Diego, Chung was undoubtedly one of the lesser seen roommates who was relegated to sidekick quips and on-screen relationship no one paid attention to. That's why seeing her make actual moves in the film industry yeas after MTV with films such as Sorority Row, The Hangover 2 and Sucker Punch actually baffled us.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Extending her 15 minutes of fame with a legitimate Hollywood film career, soon to be recognized by the Academy with her indie drama Eden.

Age: 30
Occupation: Singer
From her hit singles to her divorce drama, we can't deny that Christina is always in the conversation. Dime face, tight body—we're still on board.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Milian's always been sexy, but we didn't know just how sexy until we peeped her "Dip It Low" video. All we know is Nick Cannon and Dre lost.

Age: 26
Occupation: Model
Besides being ridiculously hot, Bar's claim to fame is: The two-riffic girl with the easy smile who stole Leo away from Gisele. And from the looks of her, we can see why Leo changed faces. Oh, by the way, they just broke up, so if you're packing a cool hundred mill and have a personality, she's all yours.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Having her body plastered across a Southwest Airlines plane/cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Age: 24
Occupation: Adult Video Star
Sasha Grey's work in the past three in the adult film industry has done more for men's imaginations than most who have come before her. She even took her talents mainstream with a recurring gig as Vince's girlfriend on Entourage.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Transcending the adult industry by starring in The Roots' "Birthday Girl" video and Steven Soderberg's The Girlfriend Experience.

Age: 35
Occupation: Music Video Model/Actress
We couldn't care less if she drives a Honda Accord—the Jessica Rabbit of the music-video world was clearly the MVP of BET...that is, until she gracefully bowed out. Yo Melyssa: Jigga came outta retirement, why can't you?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Transcending music videos to produce and host TV shows. When it comes to video vixens, she's the G.O.A.T.

Age: 31
Occupation: Actress
Every TV show has that hot girl you look forward to seeing every week. Minka Kelly was that girl for Friday Night Lights. In addition to the show, this Texas native became more well-known by hanging out in the Yankee Stadium suites to watch her former fiance Derek Jeter play ball. We're glad she's single now, which makes us all the more disappointed that her latest show, Charlie's Angels, was canceled.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Breaking up with John Mayer (hopefully soon to be surpassed by breaking up with Wilmer Valderrama).

Age: 26
Occupation: Singer
Ciara started off the decade as the good girl who intended to stay that way. A couple hit records, two platinum albums and a duet with 50 Cent later, the ATL native has grown into a sultry songstress with the whole world trying to get into her goodies.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Having the sexiest music video until Beyonce crushed the game with "Single Ladies." The "Promise" video was so on point, Lil' Wayne wrote a song about it.

Age: 38
Occupation: Model
Sure, Kate's heyday was in the '90s, but in our era she settled into an appealingly sleazy lifestyle while dating British junkie rock star Pete Doherty. And then look what Katy did next: proving all those Say No to Drugs campaigns wrong, she actually made more dough after flicks of her doing blow were published. She nose what she's doing!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making her Supreme photoshoot one of the most ubiquitous images out there today.

Age: 27
Occupation: Model
When we think of vacationing in Hawaii, we imagine picturesque beaches, clear water, palm trees and girls that look Jarah Mariano. One of the 50th state's best exports (besides Obama), Jarah has appeared in back to back issues of Sports Illustrated Swimswuit Editions as well as Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" video. We're still waiting to see all of what she's got.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is a good debut and all, but she was undoubtedly at her best on the cover of our 5th anniversary issue.

Age: 36
Occupation: Singer/Rapper/Songwriter
It took the world a minute to catch onto the overtly political, London born Sri Lankan. But now you'd be hard pressed to hear music not influenced by her unique melding of dancehall, electronica and hip hop. It may not be for everyone, but we bet your favorite artist loves M.I.A.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Performing alongside Jay-Z, T.I., Kanye West and Lil' Wayne at the 2009 Grammy's while nine months pregnant and (arguably) flipping off the camera at Super Bowl XLVI.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
So what if she was once named by anti-virus company McAfee as the most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace (do not open an email with her name in the subject). J.B.'s got the remedy for all these bony starlets, and enough assets to make Mr. Timberlake fall for her.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Parading around in her underwear in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and getting Timberlake to actually put a ring on her.

Age: 23
Occupation: Actress/Singer/Model
Vanessa Hudgens almost didn't make it onto our list. But how could we deny the girl who shook the entire Disney teenybopper world to its core when the nude photos she sent to her boyfriend got ousted online? If she was a few years older, we'd wife that.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: We haven't seen any of the High School Musicals, but we did catch the flicks that were meant for Zac Efron.

Age: 27
Occupation: Actress
A killer smile and just the right amount of baby fat makes Lauren London our hands-down favorite unofficial Re-Up Gang member. We're even willing to overlook that she had Lil Wayne's 47th child (yeah, she's that bad)—especially because we've seen what motherhood does to a woman's body, and the new offerings are truly breathtaking.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making ATL a must-see cinematic event.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
Not only is she smart (she graduated from Harvard in 2003), Natalie Portman has the money (she's acted since she was 4) and the looks (um...look at her). She'd be number 1 on this list if we gave more points for wit, but alas, this is not that list.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning an Oscar for her turn as a psychologically-disturbed ballerina in Black Swan.

Age: 31
Occupation: Model
Brazil is full of hot chicks, but when you talk Brazilian women, the first name to come out of your drooling mouth is undoubtedly Gisele. You know a chick is a big deal when she marries a three-time Super Bowl champion, two-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback and he's a nobody compared to her. Brady who?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: The Queen of the Brazilian Supermodels became the highest-paid model on the planet this past decade with $151 mill in the bank.

Age: 31
Occupation: Actress
Before the world knew her as Sarah Marshall, Kristen Bell held it down as a sexy detective in one of the highest-rated network TV shows, Veronica Mars. Now this Detroit-raised blonde bombshell has a slew of projects in the works, including her new hit TV series House of Lies. And to think, she went from a bit role in Pootie Tang, to getting her own Complex cover.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Showing the world exactly what tantric sex is in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and making us want to cuddle her after streaming her hilarious sloth freak out video.

Age: 38
Occupation: Actress
We love the accent, we love the smile, but most of all, we love that the British siren looks so damn good while she's killing off Lycans. Break us off a piece of that sweet shepherd's pie!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Managing single-handedly (or at least single-skintightsuitedly) to make Underworld a money-making franchise.

Age: 34
Occupation: Actress
You might have seen this Canadian beauty in an old episode of The O.C. and taken note. You probably even saw her during the first few seasons of Entourage and thought she was cute. Then all of a sudden, during more recent seasons of the HBO hit series Entourage, shorty started looking seriously sexy. The step-up sent her straight to top of everyone's hottie list, but we already knew. Just check out our cover.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making You Don't Mess With the Zohan 20% more watchable.

Age: 31
Occupation: Singer
Xtina kicked off the decade by flying her freak flag high for all the sweet blond pop starlets who just wanted to mud-wrestle and box with other chicks. Now, she's a 31-year-old MILF and The Voice judge who's newly single after divorcing her music-biz douchebag of a husband. But that four-octave vocal range? We could still make her hit the high notes.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: The "Dirrty" video. 'Nuff said.

Age: 39
Occupation: Actress/Model
Nicknamed Sofia "Viagra", the bilingual Colombian is usually cast as the ridiculously hot Latina woman in every movie or TV show she's in. And she plays it oh so well. If you're feeling down, catch her doing her thing alongside Ed O'Neil in ABC's Modern Family, we're sure it'll get you up (pause).

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Remaining the most salaciously sexy Latina in Hollywood. Thank the lord her new show, Modern Family is actually good.

Age: 27
Occupation: Singer
When everyone found out how hot the girl behind summer 2008's bi-curious anthem was, Katy Perry quickly became a sex icon. Not bad for a girl who grew up in a Christian household. After her multi-platinum selling album Teenage Dream broke records, it became clear that KP is one of our era's real pop stars. We took notice early and gave homegirl a cover in 2009.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Breaking Michael Jackson's record for most number one hits off a single album with her total of six off Teenage Dream.

Age: 28
Occupation: Model
The definition of an overnight celebrity, Amber Rose became one of the hottest chicks in the game out of nowhere. Yeezy's former relationship with the video girl-turned-model might be a little ambiguous, but our love for the bald beauty is nothing but clear. These days, she's mostly known for her relationship with Wiz Khalifa and open bisexuality, and honestly, she's so hot that we don't need to know that much more.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Appeared in an ass-tastic Louis Vuitton ad campaign for Ye's sneakers with the brand, and shut the Internets down with her hottest photo shoot to date, ours.

Age: 25
Occupation: Actress
Lohan, you may be through with your probation now, but when you grabbed our hearts as the young girl who did whatever the hell she wanted, we couldn't stop watching. It's hard to believe that you're already 25. Look how far you've come!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: One might point to Mean Girls or her smoking hot GQ cover, but it was her inability to stay away from the party (or photographers) between 2006 and 2008 that garnered her a place in our hearts, and what we consider to be her most iconic moments of the Complex era.

Age: 33
Occupation: Actress
This half Puerto Rican, half Dominican dime, who played Uhura in Abram's Star Trek relaunch, is the new Intergalactic Empress of the Geeks. We mean that in a totally positive, "we want to explore deep space with her but our phaser just blasted in our pants" kinda way.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: She started the decade working with Nick Cannon (Drumline) and Britney Spears (Crossroads). Now she works with guys like Steven Spielberg (The Terminal), J.J. Abrams (Star Trek), and James Cameron (Avatar). Ultimate come up.

Age: 37
Occupation: Actress
Her habit of dating weirdos (Javier Bardem) and douchebags (Matthew McConaughey) and douchebag weirdos (Tom Cruise) is easily trumped by her habit of getting (tastefully) nude in her movies.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning an Oscar for her firecracker of a role in Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona (in which she made out with ScarJo).

Age: 35
Occupation: Actress
These days, a girl like Kerry is a rare bird—a legitimately sexy female celebrity with genuine talent and no tabloid skeletons. That said, it must be a stretch for the actress to star in the crime-ridden new ABC drama, Scandal.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making the all-black everything look (bra, panties, heels) look sexy and having every guy rethink their vows in I Think I Love My Wife.

Age: 35
Occupation: Singer/Dancer
Yeah, "Hips Don't Lie," but we prefer the words of the Mighty Mos: "Ass so fat that you can see it from the front." Combine the Colombian's swivel with her sizzle and...damn.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: After people wrote her off as nothing more than a provocative booty shaker, she went ahead and recorded one of the biggest pop singles of the 21st century. Take that, take that.

Age: 29
Occupation: Rapper
Lauryn Hill is strung out, Lil' Kim is obsessively dabbling in plastic surgery, Foxy Brown is M.I.A. and Lil' Mama is, well, Lil' Mama. Holding the torch for female rap is Weezy's Young Money signee, our 10th Anniversary Issue cover girl Nicki Minaj.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT:  Going on tour with Britney Spears, playing the Superbowl and making her hit "Super Bass" a song only the cool kids know how to rap to.

Age: 33
Occupation: Singer/Dancer
Nicole and the Pussycats are like LeBron and the Cavs, back when they sucked. In short: a one-woman team. Her solo career is still in the "up and coming" category, but maybe Nicole should take a lesson from Bron—get some better teammates, ma!

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: She's sold millions of records with the Pussycat dolls, but her real come up, besides being a Complex cover girl, was getting a hosting gig on the U.S. version of The X-Factor.

Age: 42
Occupation: Actress/Singer
If you look past her so-so music, her questionable marriage to backup dancer Cris Judd, the Bennifer fiasco and her split with Marc Anthony, what do you see? A big, beautiful, culturally significant ass, of course. (How could you miss it?) Seriously, J. Lo made so much off of that rump that it didn't even seem far-fetched when we heard a rumor that she'd had it insured for $300 million. That's only like $1 per square inch.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making a play for the Billboard charts again with singles off her latest album Love?, adding sex appeal to American Idol and giving us hope by turning into a cougar.

Age: 30
Occupation: Singer
She's currently back on the rise after the success of her latest album Femme Fatale, but early in the 2000s, her stardom couldn't even be topped. She was the decade's biggest sex symbol with equally enticing singles, including and especially, "I'm A Slave 4 U."

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Coming back from a mental breakdown and settling down with a stable man who isn't the poor man's Vanilla Ice.

Age: 45
Occupation: Actress
After a decade that gave us her load mind-blowing bikini dance in From Dusk Till Dawn, our favorite Mexican-Lebanese actress managed to get even sexier. Despite that fact that she's a 40+ MILF, with that body and accent, we're always in the mood to head south of the border.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: We know we're supposed to say her Best Actress nomination at the 2002 Oscars for Frida, but we gotta go with all the girl-on-girl stuff from Frida. Is that shallow?

Age: 32
Occupation: Actress
This former Complex cover starlet is the good girl done great, and anyone with a Lower East Side, NY tendency thinks they're friends with her. She's been in a plethora of dope movies (excluding Zookeeper), is an activist for all kinds of good causes, and seems cooler than most guys girlfriends. Rosario Dawson is a win/win/win.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Admitting (through her character in Clerks II) that in the heat of the moment, "It's OK to go from ass to mouth."

Age: 30
Occupation: Model
Ms. Lima has been a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, which means she has been selected as one of the most perfectly busty and hottest women on the globe for over a decade, over and over again. She also returned to the runway with her perfect figure, as if her pregnancy in '09 didn't even faze her physique.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making the world think she was a virgin up until her marriage while being romantically linked to singer Lenny Kravitz, Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein, and Denny of Timbalada (whoever that is).

Age: 19
Occupation: Actress/Model
If you're from NYC and haven't heard of Kate Upton, you haven't been looking up. The 19 year-old swimsuit model, who made it big with her own viral video (the true mark of fame of this generation), has a ginormous billboard of herself posing on the cover of this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Most would say her Sports Illustrated pages were a good look, but they should also take a look at the "Hot Complex" spread she did for us last year.

Age: 31
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
The quintessential NYC wifey: Sexy voice, sexy talent and sexy physique. With four multi-platinum albums under her belt and another on the way, Alicia Keys is certainly Hall of Fame status now. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning five Grammys in 2002 for her debut album and another for her collaboration with Jay-Z on "Empire State of Mind" . That's a lot of hardware, but with all that's software she's working with, we think it's only right.

Age: 27
Occupation: Actress
Ah, those lips, that body, that voice. Just looking at a photo of this woman makes you want to reevaluate your career choices for a chance with her (we hear she's dating an advertisement exec right now). Sure her debut indie/folk album with Pete Yorn wasn't too impressive, but all of her shortcomings are compensated for by her aesthetic appeal.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Swapping spit with Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Age: 45
Occupation: Actress
We all know Halle Berry was hot in the '90s, but she stepped it up like a soldier for the new millennium. There's the sex scene in Monster's Ball—which she won an Oscar for. And there's her going topless in Swordfish—which she didn't win an Oscar for. But we're going with her mammary-tastic, post-childbirth spread in Esquire-which she should win something for, even if it's just permanent residence in the spank bank.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Reclaiming her single status after dumping her allegedly unstable baby daddy.

Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
With horrendous movies like Honey, Fantastic Four, and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D to her name, the innocently sexy Jessica Alba is no Meryl Streep. Then again, Dark Angel and Sin City are still hot and we don't want to have sex with Meryl Streep.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Somehow, despite our constant pleas, she managed to go the whole decade without putting them on the glass.

Age: 25
Occupation: Model/Singer
Cassandra Ventura's claim to fame: Being hot. Like, hot enough to pull off completely shaving half of her head. Sure, she sang a few songs here and there but all we ever really cared about is how she looked while singing them. It doesn't hurt that we've seen her naked too. Now if only we could pry her away from Diddy. Bonus: She's a two-time Complex cover girl.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Had the Internet going nuts with a series of nude photo leaks.

Age: 28
Occupation: Actress
Mila Kunis is probably cooler than all the girls on this list (even more so than Kristen Bell or Natalie Portman). She's a Golden Globe-nominated pretty girl who makes her own cake, and who seems down for anything. No wonder we scooped her for a cover in 2008.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Somewhere between That '70s Show and Black Swan, we fell in love.

Age: 36
Occupation: Actress
Sure, now she's mostly known for being in a slightly overexposed relationship with Brad Pitt and having her own roving United Colors of Benetton ad cast, but Ang had the game on lock earlier in the Complex Era with her Tomb Raider franchise. 

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Making her directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey in 2011.

Age: 38
Occupation: Actress
Eva's had a unforgettable presence these past ten years—she made us perk up in Hitch, and posed nude for Calvin Klein. Yeah, she had a rehab stint in between, but what hot girl from Miami doesn't?

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Playing Will Ferrell's down-ass-chick in The Other Guys. Definition of a wifey supreme.

Age: 25
Occupation: Actress
You know how you used to laugh at anything the hot girl in your high school said? It's like that with this one, only on a macro level. When she goes to buy milk, photos. When she goes to the gym, photos. It's awesome. Too bad Jennifer's Body wasn't. Actually, who cares, 'cause Megan's body was.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Using the Transformers franchise to mind-trick all the men (and some of the women) on this planet into truly believing she is the most attractive human on Earth at this moment.

Age: 31
Occupation: Socialite/Reality TV Star
When people talk about someone who's "famous for being famous" they might as well just refer to them as a Kim Kardashian. Complex took a chance in 2007 by putting Kim on the cover, when she was just Paris Hilton's curvaceous BFF, and since then she's been a tabloid mainstay. Yes, you all should be tipping your fitteds to us. With her signature rump, it's easy to see how she got to #3 without doing anything at all.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Scored $5 million after settling a lawsuit over her infamous sex tape, has her own E! reality show, two-time Complex cover girl and had one of the most talked-about marriages in recent history.

Age: 30
Occupation: Singer/Dancer/Actress
Yes, she sings. She sangs. But holy fish and grits, this Southern gull is packin' just the way we like it. Peep that video from...no, browse her Complex August/September cover gallery, or, no try the one from...good lord, each one is sexier than the last. She is indeed the hottest chick in the game. We'd put a ring on it if we could.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Let's see: five Grammys in 2004, being Forbes Best-Paid Celeb Under 30 in 2009, or having a species of horse fly (Scaptia beyonceae), a.k.a. "the all-time diva of flies," named after her in Australia at the top of 2012. We just can't decide.

Age: 24
Occupation: Singer
Where to begin? The good girl gone bad has lived a lifetime in the last few years, but there's no question that she's earned her rep as one of the baddest chicks in the game. We already loved her style, swagger, and Bajan lilt, so the leaked nude photos just cemented what we already knew: Shorty is a 10. So she's also #1.

DECADE ACHIEVEMENT: Winning a Grammy for "All of the Lights" and becoming the fastest solo artist in Billboard history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top ten singles, which was recently cemented with her infectious hit, "We Found Love."