Don’t get us wrong. We love Jennifer Aniston. She’s gorgeous, smart and beyond talented. But to be honest, we were a little surprised to see her as People‘s World’s Most Beautiful Woman. Could we see more diversity? We know Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o and Halle Berry have been honored in the past, but the rest? Pretty white. Here are some more diverse ladies who are not only beautiful but talented and intelligent to boot.
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Aja Naomi King
Image Credit: Judy Eddy/WENN.com “You can have an impact. So with everything going on in Hollywood right now, we can have an impact. That’s what this film will do,” she said in an interview with Vulture.
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America Ferrera
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I’m a huge lover of television and film — I have been my whole life — and when there’s too much of the same thing and not enough to reflect the world that I live in, I take it personally,” she said in an interview with Huffington Post.
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Andrea Navedo
Image Credit: Brian To/WENN.com “Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism,” the Jane the Virgin actress said.
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Ashley Graham
Image Credit: WENN.com “The thing that I really want to promote and that I want women to understand is that it’s not about wanting something else; it’s about being self-assured about your size and also just loving your body,” the plus-size model Ashley Graham said in an interview with Flare.
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Constance Wu
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “[Diversity] doesn’t mean we want the white people to write Asian stories,” the Fresh Off the Boat actress said in an interview with Fusion. “What I want is to foster the Asian-American writers and directors and producers and actors… foster their stories to come into the spotlight a little bit.”
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Danai Gurira
Image Credit: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com “Black girl, you rock because you have so much potential, because your power and your resilience will heal this world,” she said at the Black Girls Rock! 2016 ceremony.
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Eva Longoria
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I’m trying to do my part as a citizen. My part as a Hispanic. My part as a woman. As an American. I enjoy it. I think everybody should be civically engaged in a level that will affect policy. That’s the point. That how our government is set up,” she said in an interview with ‘This Week.’
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Eva Mendes
Image Credit: Andres Otero/WENN.com “I’m a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I’m fiercely independent, and I’m really ambitious.”
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Gabourey Sidibe
Image Credit: Brian To/WENN.com “If [bullies] hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable,” she said during her Ms. Foundation Gala speech.
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Gina Rodriguez
Image Credit: DJDM/WENN.com “Every role that I’ve chosen has been ones that I think are going to push forward the idea of my culture, of women, of beauty, my idea of liberating young girls of feeling that they have to look at a specific beauty type,” she said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in 2014.
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Hannah Simone
Image Credit: Apega/WENN.com My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it’s the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.”
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Jada Pinkett Smith
Image Credit: Judy Eddy/WENN.com “I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn’t set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don’t want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.”
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Jennifer Lopez
Image Credit: Nicky Nelson/WENN.com “You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.”
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Kerry Washington
Image Credit: Derrick Salters/WENN.com “I don’t decide to play the characters I play as a political choice. Yet the characters I play often do become political statements. Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, or as a trans person or as any member of any disenfranchised community is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling and inclusive representations.”
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Laverne Cox
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility… the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it’s possible. So I prefer the term ‘possibility model’ to ‘role model,'” she said in an interview with Katie Couric.
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Mindy Kaling
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well-meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?'” she said an interview with Parade.
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Morena Baccarin
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I can’t complain. I’m making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.”
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Olivia Munn
Image Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com “I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.”
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Paula Patton
Image Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com “The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.”
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Penelope Cruz
Image Credit: WENN.com “The most important lesson I’ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.”
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Priyanka Chopra
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I think it’s great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it that way. That’s the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.”
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Rosario Dawson
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.”
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Salma Hayek
Image Credit: Lia Toby/WENN.com “They want a girl to come in and be quiet and look pretty and do as the say, and it’s just not in my nature,” she said in an interview with Huffington Post.
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Roselyn Sanchez
Image Credit: DJDM/WENN.com “I came here when I was almost 22. I’m perfectly bilingual, but I’m never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.”
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Shonda Rhimes
Image Credit: Brian To/WENN.com “I think in telling LGBT stories, I’m telling everyone’s story. Love is, in fact, universal, right? I want my daughters to grow up in a world in which there is more love than hate. I want them to know a world where everyone is free. So that’s why I write the stories that I do, because everyone should be free,” she said during her 2012 GLAAD speech.
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Sophia Vergara
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “I’m fearless. I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.”
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Stephanie Beatriz
Image Credit: Nicky Nelson/WENN.com “I think so many times in society women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say ‘sorry’ and ‘excuse me,’ and get out of the way,” she said in an interview with Latina.
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Tracee Ellis Ross
Image Credit: Derrick Salters/WENN.com “It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.”
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Uzo Aduba
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com “The first thing I’d say is to be sure to remove any of the traditional conventions that surround success, money, status, title, all of those things, and think what it is that you just like to do. I love to act. I love to make art. And, between you and I, you wouldn’t have to pay me to do it; I love to do it. I love it that much. The thing you can’t imagine yourself not doing is the easiest trigger point to passion,” she said in an interview with Darling magazine.
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Viola Davis
Image Credit: Ivan Nikolov/WENN.com “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity,” she said during her speech at 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Zoe Saldana
Image Credit: Apega/WENN.com “I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood,” she said in an interview with Cosmo.
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