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10 Shocking Photos of Supermodels Without Makeup pt. 1

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The runway lights go dark, the retouching stops, and even the world’s most photographed faces look like the rest of us.

TheThings Celebrity’s video “10 Photos of Supermodels Without Makeup” strips away the studio lighting and the hours of prep to show what happens when the cameras that pay these women millions aren’t rolling. The compilation lines up ten of fashion’s most bankable faces against unretouched paparazzi shots, backstage snaps, and their own bare-faced selfies. The gap between the magazine cover and the grocery store checkout line is the entire point.

• The video counts down 10 specific supermodels, including Gisele Bundchen, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Karlie Kloss, Adriana Lima, Miranda Kerr, Karolina Kurkova, Gigi Hadid, Kate Upton, and Christy Turlington.
• Each entry pairs a heavily styled editorial or runway image with a makeup-free candid, highlighting pores, imperfections, and the sheer amount of work a glam team puts in before a shoot.
• The compilation format mirrors a wider wave of viral “no-makeup” content built around top-tier names like Tyra Banks, Kate Moss, and Kendall Jenner, part of an ongoing public conversation about how much of the fashion industry’s beauty standard is manufactured in a styling chair.

A Decade of Faces, Stripped Down

The ten women in this countdown span three generations of the modeling business. Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford built the “supermodel” title in the late ’80s and ’90s; Naomi Campbell and Karolina Kurkova carried it through the 2000s runways; Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid, and Kate Upton represent the current crop who built their fame on Instagram as much as on the catwalk. Putting all of them side by side without their glam teams makes the video’s argument simply by juxtaposition: the job title hasn’t changed, and neither has the human face underneath it.

Adriana Lima and Miranda Kerr, both fixtures of Victoria’s Secret runway shows for years, get the same treatment — smoldering eyes and dimpled smiles swapped for the kind of makeup-free morning look anyone waiting in line for coffee would recognize. Gisele Bundchen, long considered the highest-earning model in the business, closes out the same way: pores, imperfections, and all.

The Machinery Behind the Image

What the video is really cataloguing is labor most consumers never see. A single cover shoot can run through a hair stylist, a makeup artist, a lighting team, and a retoucher before a photo ever reaches print or an Instagram feed. That production line is why a bare-faced selfie from Gigi Hadid or Karlie Kloss can look startling next to their campaign work — it’s not a different person, it’s the absence of every professional in between.

Without makeup and filters, they can look just like any average person.

That’s the through-line the video keeps returning to across all ten entries. It’s not an insult to any of the women involved — several, like Kate Upton, are shown still looking “stunning” by the video’s own framing — but a reminder that the industry sells an image assembled by a team, not a genetic anomaly.

Viral Nature of Online Comparisons

Bare-faced compilations like this one tap into the same appetite that fuels coverage of reality-competition alums years after their season ends — readers want to know what’s real once the production stops. It’s the same instinct behind pieces tracking what the winners of America’s Next Top Model look like today or which America’s Next Top Model contestants actually made it in the business — audiences are drawn to the distance between the polished broadcast version of a model and the person living an ordinary life away from it.

The genre has also expanded well beyond runway veterans. Newer entries into the modeling world, including younger names still building their portfolios, get the same scrutiny once they start booking major campaigns, which is part of why the “no-makeup” format keeps finding new subjects to feature.

Ten photos, ten careers built on hours in a styling chair, and one video that just lines the before-and-afters up next to each other and lets viewers draw their own conclusion about which version is more impressive.