Jessica Biel: Then And Now

Last week, we lamented the seeming lack of Jessica Biel paparazzi pics that always seemed to be there to keep us warm this past winter. Then like a bolt out of the blue today we stumbled upon an actual, professional up-close-and-personal bikini shoot that appears in this month's GQ. Then it struck us—why do we care so much about Jessica Biel in the first place? What has she done to merit such close scrutiny from the gossip photographers and babelogs? Let's examine the evidence.

Jessica first made a play for official babe status back in the year 2000 B.F. (Before Fleshbot). Then a rising star on the ultra-wholesome TV show "7th Heaven"—and just 17 years old—she made a desperate attempt to shed her "good girl" image with a semi-topless photo spread in the now-defunct Gear Magazine. (Then owned by Penthouse scion Bob Guccione Jr.) Her ploy worked, thrusting her into the national spotlight and getting her out of her TV contract so she could pursue a movie career. That career has catapulted her right to the middle of Hollywood with a filmography that is a growing string of medicore movies that, while not exactly failures, have left her trailing the lead pack of young Hollywood starlets.

Despite the somewhat low profile, in 2005, Esquire named her named the Sexiest Woman Alive and while that hasn't really helped the movie career, she continued to gain more exposure in the gossipy part of the internet, all leading up to the impending release of the gay-marriage farce, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry." Starring box office juggernaut Adam Sandler and armed with a marketing campaign on Jessica bouncing breasts, this could finally be her breakout role (ie. her last chance to seize A-list status.) A career strategy that pretty much relies on a willingness to flaunt her body has Jessica kept in the game for seven years since that notorious spread, but can her talent take her the rest of the way? Unfortunately for us, a serious actress doesn't pose for these kind of pics as much as a struggling one, but we're pulling for her anyway. Besides ... we'll always have Gear, right?

· Jessica Biel GQ Magazine Pictures (hollywoodtuna.com)
· Jessica Biel Gear Magazine (2000) (jessica-biel-pictures.net)
· Jessica Biel Bio (Wikipedia)

Previously: Wet Spots: Jessica In Her Underwear, Morning Wood: Presenting Jessica Biel's Ass (Again), Morning Wood: A Familiar, Uh ... Face, Wet Spots: Hot Girls and Robots, Wet Spots: Jessica's Freak Tongue, Celebrity Bikini Blowout