Top 99 Women of 2011 Part 2

Rihanna, a woman wronged. What happened to the sweet Barbadian ingenue of “Umbrella” fame? Chris Brown, that’s what, and there’s no avoiding or over-stating how 2009’s most publicized domestic altercation has transformed Rihanna. She's a beach bunny turned vixen, with a darkened and sexualized image. Goodbye yellow bikinis, hello tattooed provocateur in stockings and garters who drops avenger dance jams and reportedly spends almost $1 million a year to keep her body lethal. Completing the gangstafication, she allied with Eminem for the duet “Love The Way You Lie” (220 million online views), has a whopping five pending Grammy nominations for 2011, including Record of the Year, and has been nominated for Best International Female Artist at this year’s BRIT Awards. She’s in the process of both reclaiming and exploiting the sexuality of the abused young beauty and how it can unleash the black widow within. Be forewarned, boys. This Caribbean rose now comes with thorns.

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