Learning that a celebrity wears a wig is pretty much NBD these days. You've got your girls like Katy Perry and Kylie Jenner who are obvious and outspoken about trying out different hair colors. But then sometimes the most convincing hair changes—like Kim Kardashian's, Gigi Hadid's, and Shay Mitchell's—are so believable you’d swear it was their real hair. But never would we have thought to include Keira Knightley in that camp.
The actress just revealed in an interview with InStyle U.K. that her hair has gone through so much during her 20 years in Hollywood, she decided to turn to wearing a wig. "I have dyed my hair virtually every color imaginable for different films," she told the magazine. "It got so bad that my hair literally began to fall out of my head! So for the past five years I’ve used wigs, which is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to my hair." That's right, five years! And we had no idea.
Considering that nearly 40 percent of women will experience some sort of hair loss in their lifetime, we love that Keira got so real about her experience. Hair loss can happen for a wild variety of reasons, like stress, hair damage, or after you have a baby, and it's great to see such awesome women in the spotlight breaking down "normal" beauty ideals.
Of course, not all women turn to wigs when they're faced with hair loss (our writer Deanna can tell you all about that), but if they work for Keira, all the power to her. We'd happily watch her conspire with pirates with or without hair all the same.
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