Actress Minka Kelly, who is New York Yankees Derek Jeter’s girlfriend, was named the 2010 Sexiest Woman Alive in the upcoming issue of Esquire Magazine (more pictures below). The 30 year-old confessed she had never done a sexy photo shoot before and shockingly reveals her mother was a stripper.

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Here are some highlights from Minka Kelly’s Esquire interview:

On growing up: “Done with the twenties. I’m confident — confident in my skin, and I’m cool with my flaws and all that stuff. It just feels nice to be at peace with yourself. I think my thirtieth birthday gave me permission to have all that. The twenties were a pain in the ass — figuring it all out. What am I doing? Where do I go?”

On her mother: “She — for most of my life, she was a dancer. An exotic dancer. She was a stripper. Um, so she would come home at like three, four o’clock in the morning, and sometimes she would have a really great night, and so she would wake me up in the middle of the night and we’d go to Ralphs and go grocery shopping. And that was so much fun. We’d have the whole grocery store to ourselves, and we would have a blast and buy a hundred dollars in groceries. And it was just the best day ever. The best day.”

On her father: “That’s what my dad is for me. ‘Dad, am I gettin’ a little out of order?’ ‘Yes, Mink, you’re out of order.’ He never judges me for any mistake I make, he just tells me when I’m making it. And I trust him. I thank him on a daily basis. I know how lucky I am. I see too many people that don’t have that and my heart breaks for them.”

On her boyfriend and saying “Thank You”: “My boyfriend noticed that about me, too. He’s the same way, and he said it was a good way to judge someone’s character. It’s actually unfortunate, in a way, that you would notice that. It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone. The guy clearing our plates is a person. I don’t care if you’re sweeping the floor. I don’t care if you’re cleaning my toilet. Not that I have someone to clean my toilet — I clean my own toilet.”

On her ideal night: “My ideal night is dinner at home and a movie, glass of wine. Every time I’m in my sweats and I get my blanket and my pillows and I’m on the couch about to watch a movie, I find myself saying, This is the life.”

On food: “I know when I’m cooking for someone I love, I put my heart into it, and there’s passion that goes into it, and then you’re watching them take each bite. But what you can’t do is ruin it by saying, Oh, it was supposed to be like this, it’s not perfect — you ruin it.”

On money: “What happened to Levi’s for 60 bucks? Five-hundred dollars is too much to pay for jeans. I think 230 should be the max. But I remember when like Paper Denim & Cloth came out and jeans were one-, two-hundred bucks, and it was like, What?”

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[images: Esquire]