Most Beautiful 2009

IMAN, 53

In a business filled with blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauties, supermodel Iman says she learned to embrace her one-of-a-kind look. After retiring from the catwalks in 1994, the cosmetic entrepreneur is on a mission to show young girls beauty comes in every shape and size. "Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin," the Somali-born model told CosmoGIRL!. "I want my legacy to be that I've opened the gates to what's considered beautiful now – and you are beautiful."