Esquire dubs Minka Kelly 'sexiest woman' for 2010

Minka Kelly, formerly with NBC's "Friday Night Lights" and currently with New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, has been named Esquire magazine's "Sexiest Woman Alive 2010." She succeeds actress Kate Beckinsale.

In the article, she described her hardscrabble childhood as the daughter of a single-mom stripper who was abandoned by Kelly's dad, one-time Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay.

She also added that she was excited about her 30th birthday, which came in June.

"I'm so excited to be a woman. 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. . . . What am I doing? Where do I go?"

Without mentioning Jeter by name, she responded to interviewer Ryan D'Agostino, who complimented her on her friendliness to the busboys at their dinner by saying, "My boyfriend [is] the same way, and he said it was a good way to judge someone's character. . . . 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."

Kelly reportedly will marry Jeter in November.