Halle is beautiful. She was always kinda sexy but super sexy while pregnant. Sexiness is very subjective. If you're talking of A-listers, yeah she's up there on my list but not number 1.

lmao @ Aretha

Of the whole world?
Is this like the baseball's world series where only Americans play?

Halle B. never strikes me as the brightest bulb on the marquee, to put it midly. Isn't a brilliant mind part of being beautiful?

Sonia Rolland is tops or Cathy Tyson, Freema Agyeman, Angélique Kidjo, Mélanie Renaud, Rosario Dawson and Aissa Maiga are all better looking than her.

"Is Halle Berry the sexiest black woman alive?"
HELL NO!

Aretha need to quit…

Beauty and sexiness are subjective. These lists, whether it's your's, mine, People's, Maxim's or Essence's, say more about the people making the list than they do about the people on said list.

The women MSIM mentioned are all attractive in their own way. In terms of sex appeal, from my viewpoint, Aissa is the most beautiful, Halle and Freema are the prettiest, Melanie is the cutest and Rosario and pregnant Halle are the sexiest. Everyone else will have a different criteria for beauty, prettiness, cuteness and sexiness. As I said, Aissa is the most beautiful in my view but is she sexy? Not to me, but I bet she is to lots of people.

To some people, beauty, prettiness, cuteness and sexiness are the same thing. For me:
*"beauty" is that striking attractiveness of one's face. It has nothing to do with the body. Joie de vivre adds a lot to it.
*"Pretty" is that pageant girl bit, what is to some "classically beautiful." Think 80s and 90s supermodels plus most actresses and musicians.
*"Cuteness" is more child-like beauty, with a soft face and dimples. A playful, sweet personality and having the whole gamine thing certainly adds a lot to it. Audrey Tautou (of Amelie fame) is the perfect example.
*"Sexiness" to me is an attractive, grown-up face with curves (top, bottom or both). It's my opinion that one must have nice, pouty lips. It requires great confidence, poise and a very obvious comfort with one's body without the appearance of trying too hard. Rihanna is a great example in my view.
*"hotness" is sexiness but one's allowed to look like they're trying too hard and a true confidence isn't as important. One who is sexy is automatically hot, but one who is hot is not necessarily sexy. Pussycat Dolls and Victoria's Secret Angels are hot but not sexy.

Jamelia…

Yes halle is sexy…maybe not the sexiEST cause thats pretty hard to judge, but shes sexy

I just want to say that it irritates me to no end when Halle Barry is deemed the "iest -Black Woman," anything.

SHE IS MIXED.

She has several features that are more Euro-centric than Afro-centric and it perpetuates any self-hate that little black girls with less mixed features implicitly take on as they become women.

I can take "iest-Woman," but IMO, call a spade a spade, she is mixed…50/50. Nobody is saying she's the prettiest White woman around, thus denying her more Afro-centric qualities.

Ugh. Please direct self to racialicious article on how attractive black women are accused of not looking black enough.

Anyone who is making such a statement is making it from their own perspective. Little girls need to not worry about being sexy. If a child is worrying about being sexy, self-hatred is the least of her problems.