Why Sandra Bullock Deserves 'People' Magazine's World’s Most Beautiful Woman Title

Sandra Bullock is People’s “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” of 2015.

Yes, 2015, that’s the year, not 1994 when the actress broke out in Speed, or 2000 when she was crowned Miss Congeniality.

It’s not 2009 when she won best actress for The Blind Side or 2013 when she was nominated for Gravity.

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During a year when she’s taken time off of work - what she calls “princess mode” - to focus on her daily routine with her 5-year-old son Louis, the magazine has bestowed her (instead of the hundreds of other PYTs vying for the title) with the honour.

“Real beauty is quiet. Especially in this town, it’s just so hard not to say, ‘Oh, I need to look like that,’” she explained of what the distinction means to her.

“No, be a good person, be a good mum, do a good job with the lunch, let someone cut in front of you who looks like they’re in a bigger hurry. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren’t trying."

While the magazine has received its fair share of flack for holding up what the archetypal woman is - in the past, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, and, last year, Lupita Nyong’o, have all been chosen - Bullock, who laughed off the recognition (when she heard, her reaction was, "No, really. I just said, 'That’s ridiculous. …I’ve told no one.”) seems to have been selected for the right reasons.

Bullock isn’t campaigning for awards, she’s trying to raise her son right. She’s not aching for audiences to flock into move theaters to buy tickets to her film, she’s focused on carpool and playdates.

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She might be one of the highest paid and supremely sought after talents, therefore affording her the luxury to be a stay-at-home mother at the moment (hence the self-deprecating “princess mode”), but she represents the beauty that all women have.

The modest, unpretentious kind that’s a rare breed in her business.