Article by Shenieka Russell-Metcalf
Kellie Pickler shaved her blonde locks this week on Good Morning America as a sign of unity to support a childhood friend who is battling cancer.
Her best friend Summer Holt Miller was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, had a mastectomy and will start the chemotherapy this week. “If this compels even one person to change their mentality toward waiting until the age of 40 for their mammogram, then it will be worth it,” Miller said.
Miller called the day a life changing one and later wrote on her website, “I was told that it was mentally much easier to do it this way than to wake up with my hair on my pillow. I’m really not that apprehensive about shaving my head. It is hair and it will grow back.”
Pickler is loving her new ‘do, tweeting yesterday, “Perk of having a buzz cut is that I get to sleep in an extra hour…no need to shampoo, condition, blow dry, flat-iron. #ExtraZzzzz ;)”.
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