Star Trek star and ‘world’s sexiest woman’ unrecognisable as she ‘ages backwards’ in new snap

A Star Trek actress once named one of the ‘world’s sexiest women’ looks unrecognisable in a new snap as fans suggest she’s ageing backwards.

Jolene Blalock, who played T’Pol in Star Trek: Enterprise, posted the pic to her Instagram account and left her followers stunned, with the 48-year-old failing to age like the rest of humankind. Her photo sees her in a Las Vegas casino, lounging in one of the seats used by people playing the slot machines.

Wearing a figure-hugging red cocktail dress, the former model offsets her formal top with a pair of white socks and Converse trainers. The post was simply captioned ‘#Vegas’, and fans were quick to heap praise on the star that made aliens look hot.

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One admirer gushed: “Vegas just got more interesting then. Love the colours and the whole vibe of you. Nice!”

Another said: “Amazing! Beautiful and the dress with sneakers vibe is hot.”

A third added: “How are you younger than when you were in Star Trek? You a real Vulcan?”

While a fourth wrote: “You’re teasing us Jolene, coming to Vegas but not the Trek convention!! Please come sometime I’d love to meet ya!”

The actress was in high demand in the early part of the millennium, with her modelling and acting career in its ascendency.

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She captured headlines and catapulted herself into fame with her portrayal of first officer T’Pol in Star Trek: Enterprise in 2001.

When she landed the role as the Vulcan science officer, it was by far her biggest role to date, as she appeared in all 98 episodes of the Star Trek prequel series.

Her modelling career, which started at the age of 17, saw her featured twice in Maxim’s “Girls of Maxim” gallery, and in 2003, she was named the 10th sexiest woman in the world by the men’s lifestyle magazine FHM (For Him Magazine).

Blalock also posed, clothed, for Playboy in 2002 and was interviewed for Playboy’s 20Q section in 2005 towards the end of her Star Trek run.

Despite appearing in several movies since 2005, one of the biggest being the 2008 straight-to-video movie Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, it was not one that would send Blalock to the stratosphere.

From there, it was bit part after bit part, and since 2017 she hasn’t appeared on the screen.

During her Star Trek days, she met her husband-to-be, Michael Rapino, the CEO of events promoter and venue operator Live Nation.

In 2003, Blalock proposed to Rapino and since their marriage, they’ve had three sons, with Blalock spending more of her time looking after them.

The couple also created the Rapino Foundation in 2010 which helps populations in the developing world.

She also supports a variety of different organisations including The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Barefoot Foundation (Pies Descalzos Foundation), Humane Society International (HSI), the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and The Clara Lionel Foundation.

It seems, however, that alongside all her philanthropic endeavours her front covers didn’t end when her modelling career did, as a dog fancier Blalock has also appeared on the cover of the UK’s K9 Magazine.

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk