Transformation

Sandra Bullock's no cookie-cutter beauty. "Welcome to my broken nose!" she tells InStyle. "My mother looked like a combination of Jackie O and Maria Callas. She always said 'Be original.'" Bullock follows this maternal advice in every area of her life, from her happy marriage to motorcycle mechanic Jesse James to her Texas home base to her offbeat professional projects, like The Proposal and The Blind Side. While Bullock's always a stunner on the red carpet, as far as she's concerned, "I feel sexiest when the person I love wakes up next to me and looks at me with love even if my hair looks like the dogs have been chewing on it." Spoken like a true original.

1982: The Arlington, Virginia high school senior wore pigtails with her cheerleading uniform.