Source: People Magazine (Nov 15, '99)
Thanks to Backstreet.net reader natasha shea for sending this in.
Here’s the article from the November 15th issue of People Magazine (Sexiest
Men Alive) about Kevin Richardson who’s the sexiest pop
star:
It’s time to separate the man from the boys - Kevin Richardson from
worldwide pop phenoms
the Backstreet Boys, that is. Sure, bandmates Nick Carter, A.J. McLean,
Howie Dorough and
Brian Littrell each have their cadre of screaming teenage girls. Those
fans scooped up all the
tickets to the Boys’ current 39-city tour in one day and made their
latest multiplatinum album,
Millenium, the fastest-selling record of all time. But with his laser-bright
green eyes and
chiseled chin, Richardson, 28 - deemed the group’s “most likely future
male model” by The New
York Times – is the one providing a guilty pleasure for Mom too. “he
has a very strong
presence; his whole aura is sexy,” says the quintet’s fashion stylist
Rachel Rosenzweig. Yet the
6’1” former captain of Lexington, Kentucky’s Estill County High School
football team calls
himself “pretty quiet. I guess I’m more the ‘internal’ type than the
other guys.” And, according
to Dorough, “the most humble and modest guy I know.” Still, immodest
fans lob lingerie during
concerts, not caring that Richardson found his own sweetie (a dancer
he declines to name)
seven years ago at Disneyland, where he began his showbiz career as
a Ninja Turtle. “She
walked into the cafeteria, and it was like someone turned a light on,”
he says. As to his own
incandescence, Richardson demurs. “Sexiness isn’t something that’s
put on,” he says. “It just
naturally comes out of you.” And it’s just as natural to notice.