Transformation

"My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile," the late Whitney Houston once said. Remembering gospel diva Cissy Houston's saying, the former teen model smiled often during a superstar singing career that would garner seven albums, six Grammys and over 170 million records sold. Famously, this success would come with hardships, including a long-term drug addiction and a rocky marriage to R&B star Bobby Brown, but prior to her untimely death, the single mother to daughter Bobbi Kristina was grinning with the success of her platinum comeback album, I Look to You and a role in the forthcoming Sparkle.

The fresh-faced former teen model released her first album, Whitney Houston.