This week, I was going to give the prestigious Hump Day Hottie award to a Miss Rosie Huntington-Whitley, for her stellar non-mom-jeans performance at Coachella this past weekend. Unlike 90% of her celeb counterparts, Rosie sported sexy duds, including flashing some bra, and we approve. BOY do we approve.

However, we couldn’t say no to giving the crown to People Magazine’s 2012 Most Beautiful Woman in the World: the Queen of Sing, Beyonce herself. It was announced today that the new mother won People’s yearly award, taking over the prestigious spot from another exotic beauty, Jennifer Lopez, who won last year.

From People:

“I feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt because I’ve given birth,” says PEOPLE’s 2012 World’s Most Beautiful Woman. “I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth.”

While we’re sure that giving birth made Beyonce feel more gorgeous than ever, we have to say that she had some pretty sizzling moments before the arrival of Blue Ivy Carter, her daughter with husband of four years, Jay-Z. So instead of using People’s embarrassingly over-photoshopped cover photo for our weekly Hump Day Hottie, we’ve instead decided to use one of our favorite shots of the Queen B, from her 2007 Sports Illustrated shoot:

Mmmhmm. No offense to the heir to the hip-hop throne, but your mama was hot WAY before you came along.