Jennifer the Beautiful

Well, it’s official: Jennifer Lopez is baaack.

The entertainer may not have gone away, alright, but her career certainly went from H-O-T to lukewarm for a little while there, didn’t it....

Now, though, thanks to her well-received judgeship on TV’s Americal Idol, a semi-successful return to Rom-comville, and a turning up of the temperature on her music career, La Lopez is once again kinda It...and she’s gracing the cover of People’s Most Beautiful Issue to prove it.

Lest you think it, though, she knows and she wants everyone to know being beautiful is part of her job.

“I don’t want anybody thinking it’s easy,” she said. “It does take time and it’s hard work. HDTV is nobody’s friend!”

Thanks for the clarification, girl. I’m sure we all feel so much better about your gorgeousness.

Among the other pretty peeps the magazine chose to highlight in 2011 are Kellan Lutz, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Hudson, Mila Kunis, and Ryan Reynolds, among others.

Photo: People.com.