What made Matt Damon the"Sexiest Man Alive"

by Angie Felton (Subscribe to Angie Felton's posts) Nov 16th 2007 8:00AM

Categories: Development, Celeb Parenting, That's Entertainment

My theory of why People magazine waited until now to name Matt Damon 'Sexiest Man Alive': becoming a dad made his hotness impossible to ignore any longer.

Damon became a step-father to seven-year-old Alexia two years ago when he married her mother, Luciana Bozan Barroso. Baby Isabella joined the family a year ago, and family man appears to be the role Damon relishes the most, as evidenced by his adorably modest refusal of the title.

"You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime," he says in a letter published in the magazine. "My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks I'm cool - well, cooler."

The Bourne star humbly continues, " this is a mantle I wasn't meant to hold. Don't get me wrong, though. I was really shocked and happy (Lucy said I actually blushed) when I heard the news. So I can't thank you enough for that."

Proving that fatherhood only makes a man sexier, celebrity dads: Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, and Ben Affleck also made the list this year.

Matt Damon(click thumbnails to view gallery)

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stephanie 11-16-2007 @ 8:14PM

Matt has a great smile and I am sure he will make a great Dad.

M4Mommy 11-16-2007 @ 8:13PM

Being from Boston I am not surprised at all that Matt was named sexiest man alive. What surprised me was the omission of George Clooney

Rachel 11-16-2007 @ 8:54PM

Are you even serious!?!? That is just not right...even though he is a father, that doesn't make someone SEXY...he isn't even that hot!!!

ericsmusclecars 11-16-2007 @ 9:45PM

Being a new Dad myself...I get the whole sexy thing....
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Elise 11-16-2007 @ 10:07PM

I think Richard Dean Anderson is the sexiest man alive. Like wine, he just keeps getting better and better with age.

Phil 11-16-2007 @ 10:16PM

Problem w/ George Clooney is that he's become an insufferable political ass. After awhile, people just get tired of ignorant, ill-informed souls from spouting off on topics they aren't intimately associated with. ala Tom Cruise. ala Rose O'Donnell, etc

alison tyler 11-16-2007 @ 10:46PM

I think I like father figures whether the man is actually a father or not. I wrote a whole post on this for Lust Bites awhile back.

http://lustbites.blogspot.com/2007/04/whatta-man.html

Matt Damon doesn't really do it for me, because he's just not old enough. Give him a few years, and I might change my mind!

XXX,
Alison

http://alisontyler.blogspot.com

Juliet 11-16-2007 @ 11:14PM

I don't know I would say sexy as much as a talented non-pompous actor.

I look forward to this issue of People magazine. I also love the Beautiful People issue and the issue where they show people losing a ton of weigh with before and afters.

littlewomen 11-16-2007 @ 11:27PM

Men who are good fathers are always attractive. We like them because they take care of their young, who are ours as women; that's a big plus. If they stay, they have traveled beyond, more than the gorilla, but to a human.

patsHATER 11-17-2007 @ 12:50AM

I am a stay at home father. I see the way moms look at me. Like - I wish my husband would do what you are doing. Working men are threatened by it.

Being a FATHER is macho. Being a sperm donor any man can do. Cowboy Up Men ! Stay at home and be a father.

Joy 11-17-2007 @ 1:32AM

I can't help it but I really like this man. Sexy in a way that it doesn't seem sexy....that' sexy to me. The "dad thing" is icing on the cake.

Ann 11-17-2007 @ 1:58AM

I'm surprised why they didn't get into why fathers are sexier than childless men. To women it's all about whether that man will be a good provider, which subconsciously still ranks high on a woman's wish list of what is desireable in a man (aside from a six-pack and a tight behind...).

Pastorius 11-17-2007 @ 2:09AM

Liberals cannot possibly be good fathers. Liberals believe in "progressive" taxation and redistribution of wealth, policies that work against people becoming financially independent and therefor not in need of government subsidy or dependence on the Democrats. A real man, and a real dad, understands that what he earns is rightly his, and after his passing belongs to his offspring.

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