Babe of the Week for July 22, 2011 is...

Dayana Mendoza!!!

She is the former 2007 Miss Venezuela and former 2008 Miss Universe. So if aliens land and want to know who one of the most beautiful women on Earth is, we should all collectively point to this incredible young woman, who is so beautiful it hurts just looking at her.

Latin America is renown for it's plastic surgery. Chicas in these countries can finance nose jobs, boob jobs and all other manner of surgical enhancements. All they need is a steady job and the willingness to have the money deducted from their paychecks. Sometimes for their "Quinceañera" (the Latin version of a "Sweet Sixteen" celebration, but done a year earlier at the age of fifteen, coincidentally when many Mexican chicas become grandmothers) the families of the young teenager all kick in money to purchase the cosmetic procedure of her choice.

This is why Latin soap operas are full of actresses who've been carved up like a Thanksgiving Day turkey. On some it is noticeable, on the more naturally beautiful ones and/or those with the loot to afford the very best, it is very subtle. But they all have work done. This isn't to say that it's a bad thing, because the Miss Venezuela contest is full of women who get procedures done almost without question, so in this case Dayana is no exception. But she still loooks mahvelous, dahling-absolutely mahvelous!!! And for this she garners an award more prestigious than any internationally recognized beauty pageant like Miss Universe-she is our "Babe of the Week".