After a less-than-fulfilling year—one where her 2007 coronation as the world’s Sexiest was all but an afterthought—Jessica Alba is set to reconquer what is rightfully hers: our admiration. And she’ll start this mission by reprising her steamiest role to date—as stripper Nancy Callahan in Sin City 2, out in 2011. Till then, let’s all fantasize how her motherly curves will flatter spandex and chaps.

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