50. Miss Maxim
Out of dozens of ultrahot contestants from Holland to Singapore, maxim.com’s readers picked Romanian beauty Cristina Dumitru to wear the proverbial crown as Miss Maxim 2006. And you thought Romania only produced vampires and anorexic gymnasts.
49. Mischa Barton
Drug-addled Marissa may have croaked on The O.C., but Mischa lives on, hawking shoes for Keds and appearing in the upcoming flick Malice in Wonderland. Oh, and she’s apparently back on the market, having broken up with musician Cisco “Horse Balls” Adler.
48. Mandy Moore
At 15 she released her first album, So Real. Now 23, Mandy has gone from pop tart to artist, taking on her first grownup role in Dedication and holing up in Woodstock, N.Y. to record her new CD, Wild Hope. “I’m finding myself,” she says. OK, we’ll keep looking. 
47. Katharine McPhee
Proof that second is sometimes better than first, this 2006 American Idol runner-up showed everyone (including granny heartthrob Taylor Hicks) by selling 116,000 records the week her album dropped. We’ve got a McPheever, and we don’t want no Robitussin.
46. Kristen Bell
Voted PETA’s World’s Sexiest Vegetarian last year, this Veronica Mars star has single-handedly saved the CW from becoming the worst network ever. Next she hits the big screen (with William Shatner) in Fanboys.
