List Of Stars Who Are Hotter Asleep Than Awake

Some people have an obsession with sleeping stars. Jork Weismann’s Asleep at the Chateau is a collection of photos of celebrities caught napping at the famed Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Kanye West organized a photoshoot of “famous” people pretending to be asleep in imitation of Vincent Desiderio’s Sleep. Surreptitious snaps of sleepers appear regularly on Instagram and Twitter.

In the meantime, Scarlett Johansson has claimed that Chris Hemsworth is hotter asleep than awake. How can this be? Most people look terrible when they’re sleeping; pale, dishevelled, mouths hanging open like baby birds waiting to be fed. For someone to have access to a sleeping person, that sleeping person probably isn’t minding her business in the way that we poor slobs mind our business. Such persons might be in uncompromising positions or might be somewhere they shouldn’t be with someone they shouldn’t be with. Or they are doing performance art. We don’t know for sure but we assume that they may not look their best.

On further investigation, though, it appears that Johansson has clued into something. Below is a collection of photos of people who might be better looking unconscious than when they walk around more or less tuned into the waking world. With a nod to Kanye, I have decided it doesn’t matter if the person in the photo is really sleeping or just fake-sleeping. We’ve all pretended to be asleep when we’ve really been awake so I’ll count it. Of course, sometimes we pretend to be awake and in the process thereof actually fall asleep.

So all right, ScarJo, I’ll bite. What does Hemsworth look like asleep?

Emma Roberts

Her aunt Julia Roberts could very well be on this list, but Emma has a lovely sleeping picture that might not get the proper appreciation within the spotlight of her mega-superstar relative. Her other superstar relative, by the way, is her father Eric Roberts. With family in all aspects of the Hollywood business, her career trajectory comes as little surprise. Roberts took to the screen early as Johnny Depp’s daughter in Blow. Later, she became a solid teen property in the Nickelodeon program Unfabulous, where she played a singer in a girl group. More recently, she has tackled adult material in American Horror Story. Currently she stars as one of the Chanels in Scream Queens alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, and Abigail Breslin. The pix of Emma Roberts in dreamland has a tweenie fantasy bedroom’s cotton-candy color palette that emphasizes the actor’s girl-next-door allure.

Chris Hemsworth

Well, ScarJo was apparently right. We all know that the studly star of Thor and the Avengers flicks has always been a hottie. But did you know what a big softie he was? In this pic he looks every inch the resting god as he cuddles with his kid on a long plane flight. Hemsworth may be playing the part of a great dad but you can’t hide hotness like that, even when he is caught in such an innocent moment. Then again, when it comes to the relative hotness scale of celebrities, we have to say he looks pretty darn good either way, actually. Hemsworth’s comfort with himself is evident in his relaxed facial muscles whether he is asleep or awake. Note that “relaxed” doesn’t mean “slack-mouthed and drooling.” His ability to keep his mouth closed while sleeping is key to his somnambulant success.

All Of Fifth Harmony

The members of this composite X-Factor girl group aren’t exactly hideous, but they aren’t gorgeous, either. They are rather more like people that you went to school with who did a little bit of modelling on the side. The focus-grouped slickness of their pop presence doesn’t add much glamour to them. When Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane, Camila Cabello and Lauren Jauregui are dead to the world, however, these young women revert to their high school sweetness. They look human, in fact. Roboticism may be attractive for those who dream of visiting a real-life Westworld, but true hotness requires a body temperature above freezing. Being the ages that they are, they revel in posting pictures of their singing pals on social media so we’re sure to see more sleeping pics of them any day now.

10. Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her awesome performance in 2008’s Michael Clayton. But her best piece of performing might just be the random ‘art’ installations called “The Maybe” that she has been participating in since the ’90s. Basically our gal Tilda shows up unannounced at hip sleeping spots like New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and puts on a show by sleeping in a glass box. Her grace and presence, even asleep, seem to steal the show, every time. This gifted performer of stage and screen is coming soon to a theater near you in Doctor Strange as the mystic who trains the good doctor to superherodom. When the British thespian is asleep and curled up in a cozy shirt and pants, her face softens, and the curve of her shapely brows highlights the sensitivity of a visage that, when Swinton is up and about, conveys a range of emotions that most traditionally gorgeous actors cannot convey.

Lady Gaga

Not everyone goes gaga for Lady Gaga. Some find her nose too sharp, her lips and smile too lopsided, her design sense too bizarre. Lately Gaga has adopted a visual style more reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe than Marilyn Manson. Her Emmy award for American Horror Story and her musical collaborations with Tony Bennett may have affected her. Don’t count on Gaga to fall asleep at her career’s wheel anytime soon, however; she likes to keep her brand fresh by changing things up.

Ailee

Amy Lee, or Ailee as she is known in the music business, is a K-pop singer raised in New Jersey but a resident of South Korea since 2010. Typically, she looks like that cheerful girl with the locker down the hallway from yours in tenth grade but whom you never talked to. She still sort of looks like that. When she is asleep, though, Ailee appears downright transcendent. No dropped mouth and drool for this sleeping beauty. She is all composure and self-assurance. Her hair drapes around her as if aware of its role in making her so attractive. After some social media missteps, Ailee is making a comeback with an upcoming album. She released “If You,” a single from that album, in August 2016.

 Miley Cyrus

Although she has not been in the spotlight so much recently, few can forget her insistence on being in the spotlight. She made twerking a thing, and her provocative clothing rarely leaves much to the imagination. Her face veers towards the homely side, in part because of poorly applied mascara and the prominent gums and teeth inside her large mouth. When the former child star sleeps, however, she reveals a different side of herself. Her mouth, which normally is not an asset, becomes a plump set of luscious lips rather than a sneering maw. As well, the little beauty mark on her cheek gives her an air of sophistication that Cyrus tends not to display in public. These days she is on public display as a coach on The Voice alongside Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, and Alicia Keys.

Nicki Minaj

Her visual signature has altered over her career. Gone are bubblegum wigs and snakey accessories. One thread common to all her looks, however, is an emphasis on her curves. As much as Trinidadian-born Onika Tanya Maraj tries to bring the focus to her chest and booty, many starwatchers have failed to be overwhelmed by her overall beauty. Still, when she is asleep as she is in the photo above, Minaj reveals a profile that in the past might have caught the eye of an ancient Egyptian king or a Renaissance painter. She also manages the “sleepy girl” gaping mouth the best of all the people on this list. Not only is her face shown to best effect, but her breasts and legs draw the eye as well.

 Kourtney Kardashian

Some people might argue that all the Kardashian/Jenner ladies should appear on this list. But physically Kourtney Kardashian constitutes a mashup of the physical attributes of all the Kardashian clan, so she is an effective representative sample. When Kourtney is asleep, as she is shown above napping with her son, she is not so much beautiful as peaceful. The Kardashians always seem to be trying too hard, and the resulting anxiety manifests itself in tightness around the eyes and inauthentic half-smiles. In the bliss of lalaland, however, Kourtney becomes a normal person, free from the frantic gong show that is the life of a KK. Her sister’s recent home invasion and robbery in Paris may be giving Kourtney bad dreams, but the world wishes them well.