Transformation

Barbara Walters must be one of the world's most persuasive people. Over her journalistic career she's cajoled Hollywood heavyweights and world leaders alike into confessions, tears and even (in the case of Fidel Castro) a homemade grilled cheese sandwich. It's no wonder, then, that she once cadged beauty secrets from Audrey Hepburn. "She told me how I could look like her—what I could do with my eyes, what I could do with my hair," Walters told People. "It didn't work." Frankly, we're persuaded that the 82-year-old is pretty perfect exactly the way she is.

The up-and-coming Today Show reporter sported a fashionable bouffant, cat-eye liner and pale lipstick.