Girlfriendable

“We encouraged readers not to go on looks alone,” [James] Bassil said. “I don’t believe it’s an entirely accurate reflection of what a reader strives for in their long-term relationships, but at the same time, it’s not a sheerly surface appreciation.” Right. Which is why the rest of the Top 10 in the list of most-girlfriendable includes such lovable but not terribly good-looking women as Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima, movie stars Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman, and “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria.

When a 17-year-old is given a creepy old music box that promises to grant wishes, she becomes rich, popular and girlfriendable overnight—but everyone around her starts going to hell fast.

Quite quickly, he asked me to be his girlfriend and because that had never happened to me, it felt like a big deal because I’d been starting to think that perhaps I wasn’t girlfriendable.