Transformation

Sandra Bullock's no cookie-cutter beauty. "Welcome to my broken nose!" she told 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 opening a restaurant in Austin TX, to taking on challenging roles in movies like The Blind Side, to adopting baby son Louis Bardo. As far as Bullock's concerned, life, and beauty, is a journey: "We all grow into the beautiful person that we're supposed to be—some earlier, some later."

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