FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2010

#9 Jessica Alba

Last year: 3rd

What a difference four years makes. “I don’t do nudity. I just don’t. I have too much anxiety,” said the leggy Californian back in 2006. So how did Brit director Michael Winterbottom persuade our 2007 winner to bare all during several S&M scenes in controversial film noir The Killer Inside Me? We’ll wager it wasn’t with the promise of her character then being beaten to within an inch of her life. Let’s hope it hasn’t put the 29-year-old off any repeat performances any time soon.

Top 10:
#10. Abbey Clancy
#09. Jessica Alba
#08. Adriana lima
#07. Kelly Brook
#06. Kristen Stewart
#05. Keeley Hazell
#04. Frankie Sandford
#03. Marisa Miller
#02. Megan Fox
#01. Cheryl Cole