The Most Dramatic ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Makeovers of All Time

If you spent your formative years watching America's Next Top Model on UPN before it merged with the WB to create the mutant known as The CW, hello and welcome! This one's for you. America's Next Top Model reigned supreme for 24 cycles ("seasons" simply wouldn't do for this show), transforming aspiring models into bona fide models and asking one of life's most important and profound questions: You wanna be on top? And, of course, each cycle featured a much-anticipated makeover episode, which became more unhinged and OTT as the years went on.

While every cycle of America's Next Top Model is its own special journey (even the ones hosted by Rita Ora), we're here to focus on the show's early days in seasons 1-16. It was a simpler time back then, when Tyra was busy delivering musings like “modeling is being a ho, but making fashion.” Tyra and the Top Model producers also devised all manner of makeover decisions that ranged from inspiring, to baffling, to honestly very uncool—such as when they tried to get one contestant to close the gap in her front teeth...and, four years later, asked another woman to widen her teeth gap. Truly, wtf?

Check out 40 of the most dramatic makeovers from the early cycles of America's Next Top Model—or, as the initiated call it, Pot Ledom. Tears were shed! Hair was cut! Extensions were added! Brows were bleached! Mostly, though, everyone came out looking like a supermodel ready to "booty tooch" their way to the top.