100 Top Hot Maxim Girls On 2007

25. Elisha Cuthbert
This curvy Canadian caught America’s attention playing Jack’s daughter on Fox’s 24 and has gone on to do movies loved by men (Old School), movies loved by women (Love Actually), and one movie not loved by anyone (House of Wax). Aww, you tease the ones you love.

24. Sophia Bush
Her films haven’t always been winners—cough, Supercross—but on One Tree Hill and in this year’s decent remake of The Hitcher, there’s no question Sophia is a star. With one Maxim cover in the can already, this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship…

23. Hilary Duff
We first noticed this 19-year-old on Lizzie McGuire—what, you don’t watch the Disney Channel?—but since then she’s provided the world with hit movies (Cheaper by the Dozen), a clothing line (Stuff), and a mature new sound on her latest album, Dignity. ::love:

22. Nicole Scherzinger
Quick, name a Pussycat Doll who’s not Nicole Scherzinger. Can’t do it, can you? Somehow, in a chart-topping group made up of a singing, gyrating bombshells, this conservative Catholic-raised stunner, who was born in Honolulu, steals the spotlight every time.

21. Kate Beckinsale
She’s a college dropout, but unlike your “reading hurts my brain” excuse, Kate left Oxford because her acting career was taking off, leading to a crop of hit films, including Underworld, Click, and the snuff-film thriller Vacancy. We knew book learnin’ was a waste of time!

Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff once again admits that she felt enormous pressure to be thin and that, on her road to eating healthier, she took it too far:

Pop singer/actress Hilary Duff was so impressed with the results of her ‘dessert or bread’ diet, she went crazy and accepts she lost too much weight.

The “So Yesterday” singer stunned fans late last year when she appeared at a series of parties and launches looking waif-like and skinny.

The backlash made Duff take a long hard look at herself in the mirror–and she didn’t like what she saw.

She says, “I made a conscious choice to get in shape. I’ve always been a junk food eater, but I started paying more attention to what I put in my body and cut out foods like pizza, chicken fingers and French fries.

“If I knew I’d want dessert one night, I wouldn’t have bread that day. If I wanted to eat bread, I wouldn’t have dessert.

“Seeing how well it worked motivated me to keep going, but I hit a period when I got too skinny. I wasn’t too obsessed with it, but I did learn that there have to be days when you just don’t think about it.”