Transformation

Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses? In the case of Tina Fey, it was a pair of plastic-rimmed specs—along with her biting wit behind the Weekend Update desk on Saturday Night Live—that made her, in pal Rachel Dratch's words, "a total hottie." Born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, the writer and actress has gone from shaggy-haired SNL scribe to the star of her own Emmy-winning show 30 Rock. And Fey has no intention of staying back behind the scenes again. As she told People on the set of the comedy, "If I'm going to be here, I'd really like to have my hair done and have the camera pointed at me."

"I had a pretty rough puberty," the Upper Darby, Pennsylvania native has said. "Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at 10."