Flashback: A Look Back at People's 'Most Beautiful'

2009's cover girl, Christina Applegate, looked happy and relaxed after her public battle with breast cancer. The popular actress was an inspiration to many as she had just undergone a double mastectomy, followed by reconstructive surgery. Applegate claimed that following her illness she found a new lease on life and a feeling of purpose.

After several appearances in the magazine's annual issue, Kate Hudson made it to the cover for the first time. The divorced, single mom credited her then four-year-old son Ryder, for her good looks due to being short on her beauty sleep.

For the first time in 2007, Drew Barrymore posed on the cover wearing no makeup. The newly single actress admitted in the issue to being a chameleon when it comes to her looks but it is her happiness that makes her look as good as she does.

When the magazine jumped from 50 to 100 'Most Beautiful' people, Angelina Jolie was chosen to strike a pose on the cover. At the time, she was pregnant with daughter Shiloh, her biological child with Brad Pitt. The couple, along with their children Zahara and Maddox were also named the 'Most Beautiful Family' in 2006.

Julia Roberts, the new mom of twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel, graced the cover again at the age of 37. Roberts has been featured in People's annual issue 12 times.

In 2004, as her hit television series "Friends" was coming to an end, Jennifer Aniston appeared on the cover. In the issue, Jennifer laughed off rumors that her then-husband Brad Pitt was involved with Angelina Jolie. Sadly, the couple would go on to seperate a few months later in January 2005.

Halle Berry, the former catalog model and Miss USA runner-up graced the cover in 2003. Berry had just become the first African American to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her role in 'Monsters Ball.' Berry has been featured in the magazine's annual issue 15 times.

Fresh off a Golden Globe win for her role in 'Moulin Rouge,' Nicole Kidman was chosen as 2002's 'Most Beautiful' cover girl. Kidman had divorced Tom Cruise a year earlier and was finding a lot to smile about, along with scoring her first Academy Award nomination.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was starring in the movie 'Traffic,' where she worked alongside her husband, Michael Douglas, when she was chosen to be the cover girl. In 2001, the actress was a new mom to son Dylan, who was just nine months old at the time the issue debuted.

In 2000 Julia Roberts didnt just have her face on the cover of People's 'Most Beautiful'; she had three hit films in theaters that year, 'Notting Hill,' 'Runaway Bride' and 'Erin Brockovich.' One of those films, 'Erin Brockovich' would go on to win Roberts her first Academy Award.

Rounding off the decade of 'Most Beautiful' was the first actress chosen by People to grace the annual issue - Michelle Pfeiffer. The actress had matured since her first cover and in 1999 was married and the mother of two young children.

The third male to score People's annual cover was a young Leonardo Dicaprio the following year in 1998. The 23-year-old heartthrob had recently starred in the 1997 mega-hit 'Titanic' opposite Kate Winslet.

The second male to grace People's 'Most Beautiful' issue cover was Tom Cruise in 1997. Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman at the time, had two young children, and nineteen films under his belt. Fourteen years later, the superstar remains as successful and talented.

At the start of her "Friends" success, Courteney Cox was chosen for People's 1995 'Most Beautiful' cover. Cox was already known from gigs like "Family Ties," but "Friends" truly catapulted Cox and her co-stars into superstardom in the '90s.

Meg Ryan scored the 1994 'Most Beautiful' cover of People magazine and had become a box office queen for romantic comedies. The actress was married to actor Dennis Quaid at the time and was enjoying the success of her film 'Sleepless in Seattle' that had opened the previous year.

In 1993, Cindy Crawford was People's 'Most Beautiful' cover-girl but was certainly no stranger to magazine covers at this point in her career. The supermodel was 27 years old at the time and married to Richard Gere.

Julia Roberts graced the 1991 cover of People's 'Most Beautiful' issue, followed by Jodie Foster in 1992. Foster was 29 at the time and had recently starred in 'The Silence of the Lambs.' The classic film earned Foster her second Oscar.

The first ever cover-girl for People magazine's 'Most Beautiful' issue was Michelle Pfeiffer. The issue came out in 1990 and Pfeiffer would again have the honor in 1999, making her the first to appear twice on the cover of the now-popular annual issue.

The latest cover-girl for People magazine's annual 'Most Beautiful' issue is the triple-threat and "American Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez. Lopez gracefully balances a jampacked schedule: weekly judging duties, working on a new album due out in May and her family life with husband Marc Anthony and their toddler twins. Lopez seems to have it all and can now add 'most beautiful' to the list.