Denise Richards has been hot for decades thanks to her overupholstered chest, blue eyes like twin spotlights, and a kisser that made the kids call her "Fish Lips" in school. (After her first kiss in sixth grade, she didn't get another until high school.)

But her career is not so hot, and Marilyn Monroe was just about her age when she quipped, "Gravity gets us all in the end." Her divorce from Charlie Sheen ("the worst ever in Hollywood," says Fox gossip Roger Friedman) provided dirty laundry whose stink saved Denise's career. These days, she relies on reality TV to stay relevant: Dancing With the Stars and her autobiographical E! reality show Denise Richards: It's Complicated (renewed for a second season after tens of fans went wild for it).

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Here's our inaugural edition of the Film.com Fever Chart documenting the highs and lows of our favorite celebrities. Want more? Sound off in the comments section below!

At age 3, Denise gets kicked out of tap-dance class. "I was really bad and had two left feet." Temperature: 32 degrees

Breaks into TV as Kellie Martin's rival in a beauty contest, gets typecast for life. Temperature: 41 degrees

Dates Neil Patrick Harris on Doogie Howser, M.D. About as much chemistry as Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment by Moment, but Neil becomes a real-life pal infinitely more reliable than her real-life squeezes. Temperature: 42 degrees

Plays the top-heavy 15-year-old whose protuberant boobs get George Costanza's roving eye in trouble on Seinfeld. Many roving Hollywood eyes focus on her best feature (besides her eyes). Temperature: 98.6 degrees

Makes a bit-part movie debut in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (there was no Loaded Weapon 2). Temperature: 31 degrees

Makes star debut in Tammy and the T-Rex, as a girl riding a mechanical dinosaur containing the brain of her late boyfriend. She has to strip in the role. Temperature: 32 degrees

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Plays a scheming beauty contestant and Heather Locklear's occasional romantic rival on Melrose Place. Becomes best friends with Heather. Both of them will remember Denise's role well. Temperature: 100.1 degrees

Plays the top-gun pilot at Fleet Academy in the critical bomb and eventual hit Starship Troopers -- a perfect role for her robotic acting. Neil Patrick Harris helps her quash weird alien Bugs. Temperature: 102 degrees

Fails first audition for Wild Things. Temperature: 32 degrees

Passes second Wild Things audition, does notorious nude sex scene with Matt Dillon and Neve Campbell, and more notorious pool-smooch scene with Neve alone. Neve and Matt won't do nude scene; Denise can't say no. "I don't want my dad to see my breasts," she says. "I'm just hoping he'll cover his eyes." Temperature: 198.6 degrees

Plays Christmas Jones, hot-pantsed Doctor of Atom Physics in The World is Not Enough, with prestige director Michael Apted. Voted the Worst Bond Girl in History by EW, but it's still a peak moment. But what's she doing playing a smart girl? Her very fuzzy eyebrows shout, "DUH!" Temperature: 122 degrees

Bombs as Kirsten Dunst's vile beauty contestant rival (and daughter of crooked judge Kirstie Alley) in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Drop dead, public! Denise is great, and everybody else even better. Temperature: 83 degrees

Gets Ross a bit uncomfortably hot and bothered on Friends in "The One With Ross and Monica's Cousin" (played by steamy Denise). Temperature: 99.8 degrees

Gets drilled to death by a psycho while drinking champagne in a hot tub in a bikini in the bomb Valentine. Finally has the clout to refuse to do nude scene. "What kind of girl would go to a party and jump into a Jacuzzi with no clothes?" Temperature: 98.7 degrees

Does Maxim Magazine cover, "History of Sex." Temperature: 103 degrees

Plays nice girl Penelope Snow who becomes White She Devil in blaxploitation spoof Undercover Brother. Protests that they enlarged her rear in the ads. That's not my butt, to be honest with you. It's a computer." Temperature: 54 degrees

Plays Charlie Sheen's wife in Scary Movie 3. Scariest thing about it: Charlie Sheen, whom she marries. What kind of ex-cheerleader marries a guy Heidi Fleiss's girls accuse of dressing them up as cheerleaders? Not an atomic scientist girl, that's for sure. Temperature: 98.4 degrees

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Poses naked in Playboy -- a sure sign of a hot girl's fear of impending coldness. Temperature: 98.8 degrees

Co-stars with Daryl Hannah in the bizarre quasi-documentary bomb Whore. Temperature: 39 degrees

Denise's UPN show Sex, Love & Secrets is cancelled after four episodes. Temperature: 32 degrees

Gets a fame comeback thanks to ugly divorce. Charlie allegedly writes, "Go cry to your bald mom, you f--ing loser. [Denise's mom was in chemotherapy.] You are a pig. A sad, jobless pig who is sad and talentless and sad and jobless and evil and a bad mom, so go f--- yourself, sad jobless pig." That "jobless" part hurts. Temperature: 110 degrees

When Charlie allegedly accuses her of asking for his sperm sample, she allegedly replies, "I don't want Charlie's prostitute-tranny-infested sperm." Files semi-literate yet fascinating legal complaint. Temperature: 111 degrees

Becomes tabloid fodder when she allegedly steals neighbor and pal Heather Locklear's ex, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi. So who needs a Melrose Place remake? Temperature: 112 degrees

Denise desperately climbs aboard the reality TV bandwagon with Denise Richards: It's Complicated. Charlie sues to keep their kids off the show and loses. Kids go into therapy. Her mom dies, her dad joins the show. Low point: Denise tries to get a teenage relative admit that he's seen her in a sex scene. Presumably her dad covered his eyes. Temperature: 39 degrees

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Denise whines her way through the first episodes of Dancing With the Stars. Her performance bears out her own low opinion of her dancing and what the first boy to kiss her told People magazine: "She was fairly quiet. You wouldn't have thought she would become a star." Temperature: 16 degrees

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