Scarlett Johansson on her body: I wouldn't say it's particularly remarkable

Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage
Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage

She may be considered one of the sexiest woman in the world but Scarlett Johansson doesn’t necessarily see herself that way. On “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014,” the 30-year-old new mom admitted she doesn’t think her curves are anything to write home about.

"It’s an OK body," Johansson said. “I wouldn’t say it’s particularly remarkable, though. I don’t like my thighs, my midsection.”

The confession comes as a surprise considering all the accolades she has received for her appearance. Last year, Esquire crowned Johansson the sexiest woman alive, making her the only woman to win it twice (the first time was in 2006).

"You know, I gotta hustle. I’m a twenty-eight-year-old woman in the movie business, right?" she said at the time. "Pretty soon the roles you’re offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop. I have to hedge against that with work—theater, producing, this thing with Esquire."

She’s done a good job of hustling. In 2010 GQ designated her Babe of the Year, stating, “This is what we love about Scarlett: that she’s game, that she’s good, that she can try on all these guises without seeming to try too hard. And all the while still seem genuinely like the observant, inquisitive (and very cute) girl in transition we fell for in ‘Lost in Translation.’”

In 2007, Playboy named Johansson Sexiest Celebrity, arguing that she “is the apex of beauty and sensuality – from her porcelain skin to her fully feminine figure to her mysterious charisma, which is at once palpable and indefinable.” That same year the ScarJo love fest extended to womankind. Glamour took a poll of 5,000 women to find the world’s sexiest body and Johansson came in at number one.

Despite all this, the recently wed star (Johansson secretly married French journalist Romain Dauriac on Oct. 1) doesn’t buy that she’s a sex symbol.

"I never put on a sexy face," she told Walters, “so I don’t know what it means to act seductively.”

We have two words for her: Match point.