Beyonce Named People's 'Most Beautiful Woman'

People magazine on Wednesday named Beyonce the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012, describing her as a force of nature, style icon and proud mother.

The 30-year-old singer, a 16-time Grammy Award winner, told the big-selling magazine that her recently born daughter had given new meaning to her life.

The “Crazy in Love,” singer, and her husband Jay-Z announced the birth of daughter Blue Ivy in January this year.

Other celebrities named on the magazine’s most beautiful list included Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez and Elle MacPherson.