Birthday Babes: Elisa Benítez & Teri Hatcher

It's two hot women - supermodel Elisa Benítez and actress Teri Hatcher - celebrating their birthday today.

Mexican model Elsa Benítez who turns 32 today, began modeling in Mexico, the United States and Europe. She came into the fashion modeling world in the 1990s, during a period when celebrity supermodels from the 1980s like Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Claudia Schiffer, dominated pop media. (Text: Wikipedia/elsabenitez.com)

While the 80s were the decade of flamboyant fashion closely aligned with rock music, minimalism began to take hold in the mid-1990s. Elsa Benitez, along with a new group of top models including Shalom Harlow and Stella Tennant, appeared on the international runways and in fashion spreads in major fashion magazines. Elsa's tall, sleek frame was ideal for the 1990s look. She rose to prominence after being featured many times in the US and Italian editions of Vogue for Meisel's layouts. (Text: Wikipedia/elsabenitez.com)

Benítez was selected to be on the cover of the 2001 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. (Text: Wikipedia)

In the 2004 issue, Sports Illustrated reported Benítez's story of nearly boarding the doomed TWA Flight 800–a Boeing 747 that exploded over the Atlantic soon after takeoff. (Text: Wikipedia)

On July 2009, Benitez was officially announced to be the host of Mexico's Next Top Model. (Picture courtesy: Sports Illustrated. Text: Wikipedia)

She married former NBA player, Rony Seikaly -- 12 years her senior—in September 1999, and she filed for divorce in August 2005. (Text: Wikipedia)

Benítez has one daughter, Mila born February 2003. In April 2007 she started dating Italian movie producer Valerio Morabito. (Text: Wikipedia)

enítez is one of the world's top fashion models. Her modeling career was given a boost when she became a favorite model of noted fashion photographer Steven Meisel.

Ranked #24 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002). She was also ranked #7 in Ask Men's "99 Most Desirable Women"(2005). (Picture courtesy: Sports Illustrated.)

During the period of 1995-1998, Elsa Benitez graced the cover of 'Vogue', 'Marie Claire', 'Self Magazine', and many others. In Europe she became well-known, especially through 'British Vogue', which featured Elsa in fashion spreads throughout the period. In America, her face was seen everywhere. (Picture courtesy: German Marie Claire. Text: elsabenitez.com)

With Elsa's graceful figure and elegant demeanor, she became a hot commodity on the advertising spokesmodel circuit, and became the spokesmodel for highly respected luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo. The Ferragamo campaign lifted Elsa's fashion profile to new hieights as the company charted an aggressive retailing expansion campaign in Europe and North America, with Benítez's face out front. (Picture courtesy: German Marie Claire. Text: elsabenitez.com)

Benítez has worked for designers Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, and Rena Lange; she has appeared in ad campaigns for Episode, J. Crew, and Nine West. Her biggest career coup, however, came early in 2001 when she appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. Under the heading "Goddesses of the Mediterranean," the model's sultry photo was captioned, "Elsa Benitez Heats Up Tunisia." (Picture courtesy: Sports Illustrated. Text: jrank.org)

Benitez speak: "I really enjoy doing the fashion shows because they're so emotionally demanding!"

Teri Hatcher is the other bombshell celebrating her birthday today. She is best known for her roles as Lois Lane in 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman', as Susan Mayer in 'Desperate Housewives' and as Paris Carver in the James Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. (Text: Wikipedia)

Hatcher beat out Monica Bellucci for the role of Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filming's start, by her then-husband, Jon Tenney. Her publicist said the pregnancy did not affect the production schedule. Hatcher later regretted playing Paris Carver, saying, "It's such an artificial kind of character to be playing that you don't get any special satisfaction from it." (Text: Wikipedia)

She was voted the world's sexiest woman by readers of popular men's magazine FHM in 1997. Hatcher also appeared in films such as 'Spy Kids' (2001), 'Dead in the Water' (1991), '2 Days in the Valley' (1996) and 'The Cool Surface' (1994). She co-starred with Alec Baldwin in 'Heaven's Prisoners' (1996), which failed at the box office. ABC cancelled 'Lois & Clark' in 1997. She made a guest appearance in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' as Lt. Robinson and had a recurring role on 'MacGyver' as Penny Parker, a high-strung, young woman who always seemed to get into trouble. (Text: Wikipedia)

Hatcher beat out four other actresses for one of the lead role on ABC's 'Desperate Housewives', on which she stars as Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In 2005, Hatcher won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award in the same category. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the role, along with co-stars Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman. (Text: Wikipedia)

As of April 2006, Hatcher is one of the highest paid television actresses in the United States. She reportedly earns $285,000 per episode of Desperate Housewives. In May 2006, she released her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life. (Text: Wikipedia)

Hatcher married Marcus Leithold on 4 June 1988; they divorced the following year. On 27 May 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, on 10 November 1997, and divorced in March 2003. Hatcher has also been dating Stephen Kay, who played Reginald, the Quartermaines' butler, on General Hospital. Since then she and Stephen have broken up. (Text: Wikipedia)

Hatcher speaks: "I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me."