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The 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas

How We Picked the Finalists:

We solicited nominations through www.dmagazine.com, plus we threw in our own candidates. After looking through hundreds of nominations, the D Magazine editors narrowed down the pool to 25 semi-finalists. We brought them in for face-to-face interviews, then narrowed down the list to the 20 finalists you see here.

Meet the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas

As featured in the December 2009 issue of D Magazine

Video From the Interview

Veronica Adri

Name: Veronica Adri
Age: 29
Occupation: Co-owner, Aura Lounge

Why She’s a Finalist: Adri moved to Dallas because of a boy. Luckily, she didn’t have to travel far; she grew up in Grand Prairie. Even better, she’s now married to him. The duo opened their McKinney Avenue nightclub in May 2008. If you think being in the nightclub business is glamorous, think again. “I once saw a woman try to climb down a sewer to retrieve her shoe,” she says. Adri works long hours on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, and then she’s typically back at the club the next morning to take care of practical matters such as paperwork, accounting, and dealing with the countless credit cards and keys that patrons left behind the night before. And although she and her husband (who doubles as her business partner) travel often, checking out clubs in LA and NYC, she always likes getting back to Dallas. “It’s so relaxed,” she says. “I feel calm here.”