Beyonce named People's most beautiful woman for 2012

Beyonce hosts the screening of "Live at Roseland: The Elements of 4" at the Paris Theatre on Nov. 20, 2011, in New York.

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(CBS News) People magazine is naming Beyonce as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012.

But the 16-time Grammy winner says her proudest title is mom.

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"I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth," Beyonce told People. "I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."

The 30-year-old singer and her husband rapper Jay-Z welcomed daughter Blue Ivy Carter in New York  on Jan. 7, 2012.

"The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy," she told the magazine.

Beyonce covers the magazine's special double issue that hits newsstands this Friday.

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2 Decades of People's "Most Beautiful"

[royalstar05]

What! This horse. How stupid are the people voting for her? Nothin good about her.

[gryphon501]

More beautiful than Charlize Theron? Or Catherine Zeta-Jones? Keep dreaming.

[quinnd]

People could not have spent much time looking...........she is not even top 100. 500 women are more beautiful than her with half the effort and 1/1000 of the $ invested. Nothing but a three dimensional air brushed pin up with a gigantic ass.

[fantomas4]

Of course it would have to be a black woman, because god forbid anyone who's skin is even remotely white win the award. That would be "racist".

[jennirobbins]

Oh please! How many times have white women like Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Natalie Portman just to name a few totally white, pale, no color whatsoever women been named "most beautiful" "most photogenic" "prettiest" whatever by all kinds of publications? Go back a decade and it was Katherine Zeta Jones, or Jennifer Aniston (this Aniston chick was on so many magazine covers she didn't have to act. The loot from all the covers she did could have fed all of India!)In the 80's it was Meg Ryan fever with Michelle Pfeiffer and Demi Moore co starring every time you turned sideways. And Charlie's Angels of the 1970's sure lacked color the last time I checked and they hogged EVERY magazine cover for what seemed to be eternity. Get the message? White woman have been the standard of beauty for too long fatmas fatman or whatever your name is. You need to wake up and recognize things are changing in this country finally and white folks are no longer the only acceptable standard of anything anymore. Congrats Beyonce! And to the rest of you red necks that have a problem with it put your Klan masks back on over YOUR pale ugly white faces and SUCK IT UP!!