The red carpet is a way to publicly share your love of someone special, celeb-style. In honor of all moms, Snakkle looks back on some of the more sentimental red carpet moments, proving that moms make great arm candy.

It’s been 20 years since this steamy sexual thriller hit the big screen and caused loads of controversy with all the sex and violence that writer Joe Eszterhas could dream up and director Paul Verhoeven could get on camera. Take a look back at the cast of Basic Instinct and beware of sharp objects that break ice—especially if you’re a male!

What a difference a professional photographer, some glamour lighting, and oodles of post-pubescent confidence make for these beauties, as they grow from girls next door to Hef’s cover-worthy babes! If they knew then what they know now, what do you think they’d say?