the babes

I'll cut right to the chase: I want to have nine mistresses, and here they are.

Raquel Welch

born: 1940
notes: Getting up there in years now, but had to be included based on her work in One Million Years B.C. and to avoid alienating those who belong to the generation preceding mine.
IMDB entry
   

Tanya Roberts

born: 1954
notes: In her heyday, she was it. Best known for wild jungle romps in Beastmaster and Sheena, also one of Charlie's Angels and a Bond girl. At her best with red hair.
IMDB entry
   

Janet Gunn

born: 1961
notes: Former high school homecoming queen, Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, flight attendant, and more recently, co-star of USA's Silk Stalkings.
IMDB entry
 

Elizabeth Hurley

born: 1965
notes: First a model, then an actress, and one of the greatest things England ever gave us. She can actually act, too.
IMDB entry
   

Salma Hayek

born: 1966
notes: She first exploded onto the scene in Desperado as the mere act of her crossing the street caused a traffic accident. Her true talents emerged in From Dusk Till Dawn, however, as a vampiric stripper sporting a snake and not much else.
IMDB entry
 

Brooke Burke

born: 1972?
notes: Lingerie model and now hostess of the E! Channel's Wild On show, she likes to wander around in a 2-piece bikini, which is just fine with me.
official page
   

Denise Richards

born: 1972
notes: This perky young thing first gained my attention in Starship Troopers and then Wild Things, but it wasn't until her gratuitous wet t-shirt scenes in the last Bond movie that I really understood what she was all about.
IMDB entry

Heidi Klum

born: 1973
notes: One of the greatest swimsuit models who ever walked the earth. She also does Victoria's Secret ads. Frankly, she could show up selling wooden nickels and I'd pay attention.
1998 SI Swimsuit special page
   

Jennifer Cole

born: 1974?
notes: Swimsuit model turned TV show host, her current claim to fame is being the card-turning girl on USA's Strip Poker, the most blatant excuse for T&A on network television. It's great.
Strip Poker hostess shrine
 


Editor's note: due to the overabundance of gorgeous women in the world,
the list of the Emergency Backup Babes is also available.