In 2009, we spent so much time putting together our retrospective of the last decade (click here for our “Best of the 2000s” series) that we almost forgot about all the memorable things that happened this year. Well, 2010 ain’t here yet, so we’re spending the last week looking back at all our favorite stuff, including albums, movies, video games,girls, sports moments, books, style trends, and websites. From Rosa Acosta to January Jones, there were a lot of sexy new women on the scene this year. How do they match up with all-time Complex wifeys like Beyoncé andKim Kardashian? Look back on all our favorites with the Top 25 Hottest Girls of 2009 countdown…
#25: THE HIPSTER GRIFTER
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Kari Ferrell set the New York blogosphere on fire back in the Spring of ’09 when a story broke about her scamming unsuspecting hipster guys out of thousands of dollars. The former Vice Magazine intern, who is now serving time in a Salt Lake City prison, reportedly seduced dirty Williamsburg trust fund babies with her elaborate tattoos (including one that says “I love beards”) and pickup lines like “I want you to throw a hot dog down my hallway” and “I want to give you a hand job with my mouth.” Is it too late to sign up for a conjugal visit? Because we’re in love.
#24: TAYLOR SWIFT
Why We Loved Her In 2009: We’ll admit we didn’t know who the fuck Taylor Swift was at the beginning of ’09—we turn the station whenever anything even resembling country music comes on. But this all-American (and by that we mean white bread to the max) girl crashed our Complex world this year by making a fairly funny viral video with T-Pain, doing a pretty decent job of hosting SNL, and of course, getting played out at the VMAs by our favorite Henny-swigging rapper. We’ve definitely got our eye on this P.Y.T. now, just don’t ask us to listen to her music. Because it sucks. Sorry.
#23: NATURI NAUGHTON
Why We Loved Her In 2009: After getting kicked out of forgotten R&B group 3LW, we never expected to hear from this pint-sized cutie with the Kool-Aid smile again. So imagine our surprise when she got cast as Lil’ Kim in the Biggie biopic Notorious. The movie was decent, but the highlight had to be Naturi’s performance, which featured a healthy dose of nudity. We never knew she was hiding such glorious two’s! Hopefully it’s not the last time we see them.
#22: MILA KUNIS
Why We Loved Her In 2009: It’s no secret that we want to be Macaulay Culkin, and one of the biggest reasons is his long-time wifey happens to be our dream girl. She’s funny and stunning (those eyes!), holding it down in ’09 on Family Guy and in Mike Judge’s Extract. It wasn’t her biggest year (hence her relatively low spot on the list), but she kept us hype for her 2010 action flick The Book Of Eli and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, where she has a sex scene with Natalie Portman. Is it too early to pr-order IMAX?
#21: SASHA GREY
Why We Loved Her In 2009: The hardcore porn world’s leading intellectual crossed over in a major way this year, starring in Steven Soderberg’s art flick The Girlfriend Experience. Yeah, the movie was boring as shit, but Sasha was actually a decent actress. We just hope she doesn’t stop doing the other kind of acting now. You know, sex! Because she deserves an Oscar for that shit.
#20: TAHIRY JOSE
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Joe Budden introduced the world to his super-cool girlfriend (and her super-super-cool Onion) via a series of photos and video blogs in late 2008. Yeah, the relationship put the New York-bred Dominicana in the spotlight in ’09, landing her a King cover story and an exclusive Complex shoot as well. But make no mistake—Tahiry did just as much for Joey’s career as he did for hers. They broke up in the summer, but we still can’t wait to see what TahiryTV has in store for us next.
#19: KRISTEN CAVALLARI
Why We Loved Her In 2009: We have no problem admitting that we watch The Hills every week, so we were understandably concerned when our bottom chick Loren Conrad decided to leave the show. But we’ll be damned if MTV didn’t pull of a stroke of reality genius when they got LC’s old Laguna Beach rival back on the show to pick up the slack. Granted, KC wasn’t doing anything else with her life other than taking staged beach “candids” and starring in straight-to-DVD stinkers, but there’s two thing this California girl is good at—causing drama and looking good.
#18: AUBREY PLAZA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Our favorite new cute funny girl hit us hard on both the small and big screen this year, stealing scenes in NBC’s Parks & Recreation and Judd Apatow’s Funny People (”I have a skinny vagina”). If this improv-trained chick is anything like her shifty-eyed, hilariously sardonic characters, we have a pair of white Nikes ready to wife her with.
#17: LEIGHTON MEESTER
Why We Loved Her In 2009: We were obviously a little skeptical about her singing career at first (here’s a tip: no one likes Cobra Starship), but we’re starting to warm up to the idea now that she’s working with Robin Thicke and Weezy. But the main reason we love her is her role as Gossip Girl’s unfuckwitable Queen B, easily the show’s best character. Plus, when her real-life drama hit the tabloids (it turns out Leighton’s mother gave birth to her while serving prison time for running a marijuana smuggling ring), it only made us love her more.
#16: EMANUELA DE PAULA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: There’s a billion and one hot models in the game, but our pick for ’09’s #1 stunner has to be this 20-year-old fresh face from Brazil. She’s killed it over the last few years in the (very naked!) Pirelli Calendar, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show, and high-fashion runways around the globe. No wonder she’s been called “The Black Gisele.” Seriously, look at her!
#15: KRISTEN STEWART
Why We Loved Her In 2009: We honestly could not give less of a shit about Twilight, but there’s something about the franchise’s perpetually awkward star that can’t be denied. Maybe it’s the fact that she looks stoned at every event she’s obviously forced to attend, flashing the “I wish I could punch you in the face” look to the photographers who stalks her every move. Basically, this chick seems like a fuckin’ rock star trapped in the tween entertainment world. Thank god she’s actually starting to make dope movies likeAdventureland so we don’t have to look at bitch-ass Robert Pattinson.
#14: ZOE SALDANA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Our latest cover girl was the undisputed sci-fi queen of 2009, stripping down to her bra and making out with Spok in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (aka our #1 movie of the year) and going blue in James Cameron’s Avatar (aka our #3 movie of the year). Not since Species have we wanted to smash an alien chick so bad!
#13: SOFIA VERGARA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Let’s keep it real: when you look like Sofia Vergara, you don’t need to have a personality (we don’t make the rules, people). But God damn, this curvaceous Colombian bombshell went waaaay above and beyond this year in the surprisingly amazing new ABC sitcom Modern Family, where she consistently steals the show as the quirky family’s “grandmother.” Seriously, you’ve gotta watch it, she’s hilarious.
#12: KERI HILSON
Why We Loved Her In 2009: This smart, sexy singer-songwriter from Atlanta became one of R&B’s biggest names this year, thanks to her collabos with Kanye and Lil’ Wayne. But we have to toot our own horn on this one, because she never looked better than she did in her So-Me-assisted Complex cover story. We’re trying to record a song with her too…maybe then she’ll let us smack her ass on stage.
#11: KATY PERRY
Why We Loved Her In 2009: She blew up in 2008, but it wasn’t until ’09 that KP really got on our radar. We’ll admit that it was the two’s that first got us hooked, and once we got to know her better in our all-black-everything June/July cover story, we realized that this former Christian singer is one of the coolest chicks in the game. And now that she’s dating Russell Brand and working with Dream and Tricky on her next album, it’s pretty obvious that we’ll be seeing a lot more of her in our the the Complex universe.
#10: MEGAN FOX
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Granted, she starred in two of the worst movies of the year—Jennifer’s Bodyand Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen—but Megan Fox was still a major factor if we’re talking about the year’s hottest women. What other Hollywood chick is badass enough to speak her mind, calling for the legalization of weed and telling Megatron “instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?” Somebody just give this chick a talk show on MSNBC, because we would DVR the fuck outta that.
#9: NICKI MINAJ
Why We Loved Her In 2009: It’s been almost a decade since Lil Kim and Foxy Brown were sane and/or hot enough for us to give a shit about, so thank god Nicki came along this year to give us a new female rapper to obsess over. This super-thick bisexual dime put out a crazy mixtape and managed to steal the Young Money spotlight from Drake after he busted his ass. Don’t sleep—shorty can seriously spit, and her hilarious personality has us more hooked than those other chicks ever did.
#8: KIM KARDASHIAN
Why We Loved Her In 2009: In 2007, she appeared in the greatest celebrity sex tape of all-time. In 2008, we stalked her on her reality show and got to watch her shake that legendary culo on Dancing With The Stars. So maybe we were spoiled, but it seemed like Kim K. kept a pretty low profile in ’09, aside from another slammin’ Complex cover at the top of the year. Still, we followed her every move thanks to the paparazzi, sticking with her through relationship drama and blond experimentation. But we could care less what color her hair is—we’ll still love Kimmy even after she’s gone gray. GILF!
#7: ALICIA KEYS
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Alicia is always one of the flyest, classiest chicks in the game, and in ’09 she was in her prime. Sure, she started the year off with a lil’ tabloid scandal (she stole Swizz Beatz away from Mashonda…it’s no coincidence that Swizzy produced “Upgrade U”!), but her Element of Freedom and “Empire State of Mind” performances reminded us that she’s one of the most professional, consistent ladies, period. Even when Lil’ Mama’s punk-ass is trying to crash her party.
#6: JANUARY JONES
Why We Loved Her In 2009: In AMC’s Mad Men, JJ is great as tortured housewife Betty Draper, and this season she really got to shine when her prim-and-proper character’s perfect world came crashing down. But really, we have to give it up to the god Terry Richardson on this one—we still can’t get the image of her surprisingly amazing two’s out of our mind after seeing that GQ cover.
#5: CASSIE
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Cassie spent most of ’09 trying (and failing) to put out her obviously-doomed sophomore album, but we’ll have a thing for this Bad Girl even if she never sings another note. In ’09 she flipped Amber’s shaved head steez in her own way, inspiring a million copycats (you probably know five). Also, we’re still recovering from those leaked nude photos. Wow.
#4: BEYONCÉ
Why We Loved Her In 2009: The hottest chick in the game started ’09 off with a career high, performing for the Obama’s first dance at the Inaugural Ball. It was such a great moment that it almost makes us forget about her terrible Fatal Attraction rip-off Obsessed and the endless string of Sasha Fierce singles that no one really seemed to care about. With no new album, it was a relatively low-key year for B, but she still looked impossibly bad (meaning good) every time she set foot in public.
#3: ROSA ACOSTA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Video chicks are basically extinct in the era of low-budget, hoe-less Rik Cordero videos, but Rosa Acosta became the new poster girl for impossibly thick dime pieces when she stretched it out in Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” video this summer. Every photo shoot she’s done since—especially that out-of-control Terry Richardson x Supreme shoot—has had us absolutely drooling for more. Incredible.
#2: AMBER ROSE
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Kanye started dating this beautiful bald Philly chick back in February, instantly taking her from obscure video model to one of the sexiest women in the tabloid world. It seemed like Kanye used her as his canvas, taking her shopping and styling her in sexy, fashion-forward ways that complimented his own steez. Also, we loved every minute of her exclusive Complex shoot—especially the part where she took off all her clothes and pulled out a leather whip. It’s art!
#1: RIHANNA
Why We Loved Her In 2009: Yeah, her album was a steaming turd, but make no mistake—2009 was allabout Rihanna. After the infamous Chris Brown beating in February, all eyes were on Ri Ri, watching as she popped up around the globe wearing dark glasses and increasingly absurd fashion statements. No matter how crazy she looked, we loved her for her unpredictable originality and the take-no-shit attitude she oozed all year. Oh, and leaked naked photos FOR THE FUCKING WIN!
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