Brooklyn Decker to Esquire: Men need to be straightforward to get women

Brooklyn Decker, Sports Illustrated cover model and wife of tennis star Andy Roddick, has a message for men: keep your ego in check and play things straight.

In the February issue of Esquire, the blond bombshell opens up about Nicole Kidman's acting advice, the one chicken dish she can make well (it involves prosciutto) and how men need to be more honest with women.

"Men need to learn to put everything on the table," Decker told Esquire. "Just put everything on the table. And when it comes to the game playing, enough."

The model-turned-actress, who'll take a turn on the big screen opposite rom-com veterans Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in the upcoming "Just Go with It," follows her comment with a quip that men her age still have some growing up to do.

"In their twenties men just want, want, want, want, want," she said. "Don't make everybody deal with your want all the time. It gets so old. You know?"

And what about the older set? Decker deadpanned: "After twenty-five, it's just throw the ego out the door."

Perhaps taking her own advice, Decker, now 23, married tennis pro Andy Roddick, 28, in April 2009.

While the swimsuit model was named Esquire's 2010 Sexiest Woman Alive, and was catapulted to near-universal sex symbol status after famously donning (and doffing) a yellow string bikini for SI, she recently spoke candidly to Glamour.com about her less - er, glamorous - days.

"I was 11 years old, and very hairy," she said. "After playing in a soccer game, my mom came up and saw my long blonde leg hairs glistening in the sun and said 'okay honey, it's time.' She was right there with me. We got a special fool-proof razor, and fancy shaving cream but I was only allowed to shave up to my knees!"

Good thing Decker has clearly moved past her awkward phase, even beating out fellow vixens Gisele Bundchen and Kim Kardashian to win the Women's Health Best Summer Body of 2010 title.

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