Here's a disheartening fact for men everywhere. The most beautiful actress in the world (not to be confused with the most beautiful girl in the world), aka Jennifer Connelly, is now married to some schmuck named Paul Bettany, with whom she is expecting a child. Bettany is best known as that guy who wasn't Russell Crowe in a A Beautiful Mind. He's also going to be in a movie about Wimbledon with Kristen Dunst later this year apparently. But c'mon! If she's going to get hitched she might as well find someone who seems worthy. Who knows, maybe she's a huge tool or something. Let's hope so.

With this latest development, it's possible that Salma Hayek, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Rebecca Romijn-Stamos will soon lay claim to the title of hottest woman in the world. Salma Hayek is incredibly beautiful and pretty charismatic, although she's only 5'2" (sorry Cathy, but mini-ness doesn't always work). She also almost received the part of Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind because evidently Nash's wife is from El Salvador or something. I think she dated Ed Norton for a while, so respect for that. Kate Beckinsale just had the good taste to play Christian Bale's wife in Laurel Canyon, she's got the British accent, and has the sweet thing goin on. Catherina Zeta-Jones is definitely the elder stateswoman of the group, but if you're going to marry an old dude it might as well be Michael Douglas; she suffers from too often playing the bitch though. In those T-Mobile commercials? Wow. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is obviously hot, but she's also cool as hell--witness her frequent appearances on Conan, and the fact that she actually kissed Conan on air, setting off one of the greatest dork-gets-the-girl moments in late-night history (ok, probably the only one). Also, she wins points because she's married to John Stamos, not in spite of this, because he's a cool dude and it shows she's not after some tool with cash.

Believe it or not, only one of these women is selling herself short.