FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK) she was "overwhelmed", and added: "Any woman who says they don't like being called sexy, they're lying." By 2002, the list was attracting over five million votes – that year, Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova was number one. A further five million votes were cast the following year, when the American actress Halle Berry was named as the world's sexiest. At 36 years old, Berry was the oldest woman ever to top the list. She responded: "Wow, that's a pretty heady title. I'm not so sure I live up to it, but thank you anyway." The first British woman to
The Woman Who Was Poor The Woman Who Was Poor The Woman Who Was Poor () is an 1897 novel by the French writer Léon Bloy. It follows a woman, Clotilde, who becomes involved with the Paris art and literary scene in the 1880s. It was Bloy's second novel. An English translation by I. J. Collins was published in 1939. Ernest Boyd of the "Saturday Review" wrote in 1939 about the English-language edition: The translator duly apologizes for his squeamishness, although none of our current exponents of the "Anglo-Saxon" monosyllables would have been deterred by Bloy, even if disgusted by his deliberate and unnecessary blasphemies.