The power couple’s baby boy was born in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on Tuesday just days after Penelope threw a baby shower party in her L.A. home last week.

Cruz, 36, and Bardem, 41, started dating in 2007; married in a small ceremony in the Bahamas July last year. In September, Cruz confirmed her pregnancy.
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Penelope Cruz

The Hollywood heartthrob with her stunning smile and beauty might have smitten many guys from across the globe.

Sally spent a year looking at press coverage to compile the list, which also included Dame Helen Mirren, 64, and 75-year-old Sophia Loren.

Penelope Cruz

She said: “Our top ten women are often the subject of spontaneous and unexpected press exposure yet always manage, somehow, to look great. Sometimes they are caught without their make-up, on bad hair days, or in less than flattering poses, but their natural beauty always seems to shine through.

“There is no question in my mind that Penelope Cruz is a worthy winner. She was an undoubtedly pretty girl when she started her acting career at 16 but, 20 years later, she has matured into a particularly beautiful woman and a fine actress.”

The youngest entrant was 34-year-old Charlize Theron and Sally believes the reason older females were included is because they get better with age.

She said: “As someone once said, the difference between pretty and beautiful is that pretty is temporal, whereas beautiful is eternal.”

The list was compiled for clothing firm Wizard Jeans, with spokesman Anthony Edwards saying: “Women like Beyonce Knowles and Cheryl Cole are sexy and pretty but real beauty is something that comes from within and usually requires maturity. The days when women were considered past it at 40 are long gone.”

Top ten of the world’s most beautiful women:

1 – Penelope Cruz

2 – Claudia Schiffer

3 – Kristin Scott Thomas

4 – Queen Rania of Jordan

5 – Catherine Deneuve

6 – Dame Helen Mirren

7 – Charlize Theron

8 – Kate Beckinsale

9 – Natascha McElhone

10 – Sophia Loren
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Penelope Cruz had to miss out on promoting her upcoming musical Nine in Cannes Monday, sidelined by “some sort of food poisoning.”, according to People.

In France to premiere her movie Broken Embraces, which is directed by Pedro Almodóvar, she was slated to join movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in presenting a trailer and a teaser for Nine, but fell ill.

Weinstein passed on the bad news to a select group of journalists: “Tomorrow night is her premiere for her movie. She is getting better and is seeing a doctor right now.”

Penelope Cruz Gets Blow

Penelope Cruz magazine scans from Vanity Fair Magazine’s latest Spain edition for the month of April 2009.
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Penelope Cruz Does Vanity Fair Spain (April 2009)

Penelope Cruz in the cover of Vogue Spain

Amazing Spanish hottie Penelope Cruz is on the cover of Vogue Espana April 2009.
The photo shoot was made by talented photographer Patrick Demarchelier.

Penelope Cruz picked up the Best Supporting Actress prize for her role in Vicky Christina Barcelona on Sunday and was so thrilled she took the famous golden statue to bed.

She told US TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey: “When they gave it to me I could not stop crying for 20 minutes. I could not look at it – is it for real, or one of those things my friends gave me or something?

“This morning I woke up with the same feeling. But I had put the Oscar in my bed, on the other pillow, I looked – and it was there!”

Penelope’s friends and family all painted the letter ‘P’ on their foreheads to show their support for the actress at the awards.

In collecting an Academy Award, Penelope follows in the footsteps of her boyfriend Javier Bardem, who became the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar last year.

Javier didn’t attend the awards on Sunday because he was filming his latest movie Beautiful.

The Spanish star, Penelope Cruz looks hot in this France magazine.

Penelope Cruz in Gala #821 of 2 March 2009

Penelope Cruz Kiss Scarlett Johansson

Penelope Cruz has told of how the crew on her latest movie packed the set to watch her kiss Hollywood hottie Scarlett Johansson.

Cruz says of the girl-on-girl scene that it is tame for contemporary audiences – but it still got the film crew hot under the collar.

“But I’ll tell you one thing,” she told London’s Daily Mail, “the day we did that scene the set was crowded. I think it was supposed to be a closed set, but these guys made a lot of excuses to be there…”

The spell-binding Spaniard also tells of her love of working with filmmaking master Woody Allen.

“Woody gave us a lot of freedom to improvise with the language,” she said.

“And a lot of the words were terrible. And I would go home and worry about it!

“I’ve loved his films for so long and I watch them all the time.”
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Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz have struck up a surprisingly close friendship in the run-up to this year’s (09) Oscars – despite only having met three times. The unlikely pair, who are both competing for this year’s (09) Best Supporting Actress gong, have been offering each other phone support daily in the countdown to the prestigious show.

And Cruz insists she and Winslet enjoy a far-from-bitter relationship, contrary to reports.
She says, “Kate and I have become very close even though we have only met three times. Everyone likes to think there’s rivalry between us but that’s not true.”

Penelope Cruz is nominated for her part in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Winslet received the nod for her role in The Reader.
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 22 February (09).

Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz was front and center at the Official Opening of “A Diamond Is Forever Unbreakable Kiss Mistletoe Installation” in New York City on Monday – December 1.

The daytime event was held at Madison Square Park, with ribbon cutting ceremonies in recognition of the Elton John AIDS Foundation on World AIDS Day.

Penelope Cruz – Official Opening of ‘A Diamond Is Forever Unbreakable Kiss Mistletoe Installation’ in NY

Penelope Cruz’s naked scenes in new film Elegy were all shot behind closed doors, according to Contact Music

The actress strips for intimate moments with her onscreen lover Sir Ben Kingsley, and director Isabel Coixet insisted everyone left the set for the awkward part of the shoot.
Cruz reveals, “Nobody else but the director was in the room. She was operating the camera and we could hear her breathing. There was nobody else on the set ever.
“The set was lit by the director of photography and Isabel operated the camera. Then it was just the sound person, myself and Ben.”

And the intimate setting helped Cruz through one of the toughest scenes she has ever had in a movie: “Telling Kepesh (Kingsley’s character) that my character (Consuela) had cancer was the most terrifying scene for me in that movie.
“It helped for such an emotionally exhausting scene that there were only four people there on the set.”

Penelope Cruz – Elegy Screening, New York City

Scarlett Johansson has described her onscreen kiss with Penelope Cruz “the least sexy thing you can ever imagine.”

The Hollywood pair share a kiss in Woody Allen’s upcoming comedy Vicky Christina Barcelona, but Johansson admitted that she didn’t find filming the scene sexy.

She told US Magazine: “There were like 60 crewmen [sitting around] eating salami sandwiches! It’s really the least sexy thing you can ever imagine!”

The 23-year-old added that she found the media attention surrounding the clinch puzzling: “These characters are in love with each other! Oh my gosh! People are so conservative!”

Penelope Cruz graced the cover of W Magazine for their August issue.

Penélope Cruz tells W magazine about her inner ‘monster’: “I’m always finding very tricky and hidden ways to sabotage any beautiful moment. And it’s something so internal that I don’t think even my friends or family can catch me doing it. But I catch myself doing it. I’ve had that battle since I was a little girl. It’s like, Uh-oh, here it is again, the monster! Go away and leave me alone!”

On Facing Her Fears: “I try not to run away from things because I’m scared of them. When you feel you have to say something to someone, and your heart starts going fast because it could be controversial, I always vote for saying it. With time, you get more at peace with it. I used to get very upset about it, and very angry at myself. But now, when it comes, I just send it away.”

More stories and photos at W Magazine Online

It seems like Penelope is working in a gorgeous location so hopefully she’ll have a few days off to enjoy another romantic weekend with her man Javier Bardem.

Here are some set photos of Penelope Cruz on the set of Broken Hugs in Lanzarote’s Island, Spain

Penelope Cruz in “daisy duke” shorts on the Broken Embraces set