Believe it or not, Reese Witherspoon turns forty-eight-year-old today! This ageless stunner looks good both in and out of clothes, so we're taking her lead by checking out other actresses who delivered iconically sexy roles with their clothes on. Naturally, we're referring to Reese's not-so dumb blonde character Elle in her career-defining comedy Legally Blonde. She strips down to a bikini for her college admission video.It's alladmissible in our book.
But Elle's not alone. Each actress in the top ten gallery at the bottom of this page wasin her prime when she made movie history not with nudity, but with fabric. By pushing their non-nude roles to the extreme, these ladies became instant pop culture touchstones.Who doesn't remember Halle Berry popping out of the water in a bikini in Die Another Day?
Jamie Lee Curtis proved, yet again, that she has one of the most incredible bodies in Hollywood history with her legendary strip tease in True Lies. And Pamela Anderson gave primetime viewers of all ages a huge dose of Ds with her much-imitated and always masturbated to slow-motion Baywatch beach jogs.
Megan Fox was barely twenty-one years old when she showed Shia her flawless curves in her star-making car tune-up in Transformers. And Cameron Diaz filled out boys underwear while greeting the morning with a dance in Charlie's Angels.
