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The 13 sexiest celebrity mouths on the planet

In this glossy, image-obsessed society, the great beauty is she with the well-formed mouth. From chiseled depictions of Nefertiti and Aphrodite at our cultural roots to Marilyn and Elizabeth Taylor, lips have always taken priority on the attractiveness rubric, and, in general, the fuller the better.

“Blow Me a Kiss” by Alice Harris.

In a new coffee-table book, “Blow Me a Kiss,” out this week, author Alice Harris highlights some of the most famous lips depicted in fashion, art, cinema and beyond by way of 80-some brilliant color and black-and-white photos. There’s Man Ray’s surrealist peck, Grace Jones’ severe, cigarette-sucking visage, and even Jeff Koons’ rouged Michael Jackson figurine, currently on view at the Whitney.

To celebrate the spirit of this luscious body part, and because we never tire of listing pretty faces, here are the best celebrity puckers of precisely right now.

The ultimate lips: Angelina Jolie

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Let’s just get it over with: Jolie has the most worshiped lips Hollywood (humanity?) has ever seen.

Her face may have thinned and sharpened over the years, but the 39-year-old actress is still in firm possession of the smackers that launched a thousand injections.

The heirloom lips: Georgia May Jagger

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Who needs to inherit money when your parents give you lips that’ll make you plenty?

The model’s lovely lips, one part Jerry Hall’s pucker, one part Mick Jagger’s pillows, have already landed the gap-toothed goddess more beauty contracts, runway gigs and editorials than anyone can count.

The rookie lips: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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Her role in Amma Asante’s critically lauded “Belle” might have moved us … if we’d been able to stop staring at her mouth. More parts for her, please.

The ‘Scandal’ lips: Kerry Washington

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The witty, Bronx-born stunner has worked her pout from a supporting bit in “Save the Last Dance” to headlining one of TV’s most popular shows, “Scandal,” from which her lip quiver has become a star in its own right.

The name-on-everyone’s-lips lips: Kim Kardashian

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Love her or hate her until you’re red in the face — her lips will be perfectly glossed.

The controversial lips: Lana Del Rey

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When Del Rey first entered the scene, the music was second to incessant rumors that her big ol’ lips are fake.

Either way, the crooner’s mouth has become its own entity, for it’s impossible to hear her melancholic tunes without picturing the puffy spout from which they came.

The Oscar-winning lips: Lupita Nyong’o

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Talent combined with a Yale education may have won Nyong’o her Academy Award, but it was the two perfect crescents on her face that landed her People’s Most Beautiful crown and that Lancôme contract.

The classic lips: Scarlett Johansson

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Because her plump mouth comes paired with a raspy bedroom voice, ScarJo’s lip hype predates her actual celebrity. But at the core of it, there’s a reason she was picked to play an ageless face in “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”

The bankable lips: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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With lips so sumptuous they deserve an offshore bank account, it’s no wonder the model has parlayed her most coveted body part into a Victoria’s Secret contract, a starring role in a blockbuster movie and no fewer than six free Givenchy bags.

The sibling lips: Solange Knowles

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Yep, her lips pack a punch, too! Sorry, Bey, but your sister’s sassy mouth wins for being a little bit bigger, a lot more unpredictable and typically better-dressed.

The runway lips: Lindsey Wixson

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In the modeling world, which is full of flawless, full-lipped faces, any mention of mouths instantly evokes Lindsey Wixson.

How a girl from middle America (literally — she’s from Kansas) got such a strikingly bulbous pout is beyond anyone’s comprehension. She’s fashion’s living, breathing Bratz doll.

The reluctantly-included-in-this-list lips: Rihanna

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Rihanna needs no extraneous praise, lest her big head spontaneously combust. That said, the singer does possess a rather shapely mouth. It’s especially nice when closed.

The inimitable lips: Naomi Campbell

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The size and shape are impeccable, sure, but it’s all about the way the supermodel purses her mouth when she smirks or is about to strike.