Despite their age or surface-level looks, the following women are not hot at first glance, but who are actually kind of sexy if you think about it, in a certain way. Note this list does NOT include obviously hot babes. Only women who are “surprisingly” hot–that is, the fact that they are kind of attractive is kind of surprising:
- Susan Estrich
- Martha Stewart
- Barbara Walters
- Barbra Streisand
- Christiane Amanpour
- Lindsay Wagner
- Tereza Heinz Kerry
- Laurie Metcalf (the sister in Roseanne)
- Allison Janney (from West Wing and also the starfish Peach in Finding Nemo)
- Jeanine Garofolo
- Barbara Branden
Now here are women who do not seem hot on first impression–and this impression is correct:
- Candy Crowley
- Laura Bush (her daughters are another story)
- Madeleine Albright
- Hillary Clinton (Chelsea is another matter altogether. Yes.)
- Bella Abzug
- Ayn Rand
- Gloria Allred
- Linda Evans
- Joan Collins
- Suzanne Somers
Now there are of course many “smokin’ hot” babes who are obviously hot–too obviously hot to be included in the category of “surprisingly hot”:
- Naomi Wolf
- Paula Zahn (though some strangely call her “toothy”?)
- some of the FoxNews and CNN babes: E.D. Hill, Kirin Chetry, Lauren Green, and Soledad O’Brien.
Query: Where does Isabella Rosselini fall? Linda Hamilton? Barbara Eden? Difficult to classify.
