--- title: Julia Roberts: World's Most Beautiful Woman for Fifth Time description: Julia Roberts has been named the 2017 World's Most Beautiful Woman by People — a record fifth appearance on the cover of the annual issue canonical: https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-19T13:15:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:48.803Z og:title: Julia Roberts Named People's Most Beautiful Woman for Record Fifth Time og:description: She first appeared on the cover of the issue in 1991 og:url: https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd7a8701b6ac6355/6988c388656a3fbd43bcfa0c/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2564 og:image:height: 1442 og:image:alt: 2016 GLSEN Respect Awards - Los Angeles - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Julia Roberts Named People's Most Beautiful Woman for Record Fifth Time twitter:description: She first appeared on the cover of the issue in 1991 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd7a8701b6ac6355/6988c388656a3fbd43bcfa0c/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Julia Roberts Was Just Named _People'_s Most Beautiful Woman for Fifth Time > Sponsored content. 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She first appeared on the cover of the issue in 1991_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 19, 2017 1:15 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 19, 2017 1:15 PM UTC Julia Roberts has been named the [2017 World’s Most Beautiful Woman](http://people.com/movies/julia-roberts-worlds-most-beautiful-woman-2017/) by _People_ — her record fifth appearance on the cover of the [annual issue](http://people.com/celebrity/peoples-most-beautiful-past-cover-stars/michelle-pfeiffer). The 49-year-old actress first appeared on the [World’s Most Beautiful](http://people.com/worlds-most-beautiful/) cover in 1991 at age 23\. Asked what she thinks when she looks back at that time in her life, Roberts said she was “just very adorable and naive and so happy to be invited to the party.” Roberts, who most recently voiced a character in _Smurfs: The Lost Village_, told _People_ she’s “currently peaking” in her life. “If I can just grow gracefully-ish old and, you know, watch my kids grow up and realize their dreams and find ‘their person’ in life and hopefully have a family and little creatures for Danny (Moder) and I to spoil — that’s what the winter of life is supposed to be about,” Roberts said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/"},"headline":"Julia Roberts Was Just Named People's Most Beautiful Woman for Fifth Time","datePublished":"2017-04-19T13:15:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:48.803Z","description":"She first appeared on the cover of the issue in 1991","url":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/","keywords":["motto","celebrities","entertainment","Julia Roberts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd7a8701b6ac6355/6988c388656a3fbd43bcfa0c/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd7a8701b6ac6355/6988c388656a3fbd43bcfa0c/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 GLSEN Respect Awards - Los Angeles - Red Carpet","caption":"2016 GLSEN Respect Awards - Los Angeles - Red Carpet","creditText":"Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/","name":"Julia Roberts Was Just Named People's Most Beautiful Woman for Fifth Time"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"She first appeared on the cover of the issue in 1991","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4746083/julia-roberts-people-worlds-most-beautiful-woman/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```