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Now this is friendship. Kellie Pickler appeared in a video clip on Good Morning America Wednesday sporting a very different look: a totally shaved head.

The country starlet buzzed off her blonde locks on Tuesday in support of her best friend, Summer Holt Miller, 36, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June and is starting chemotherapy treatments on Thursday.

“Cancer does not discriminate,” Pickler said in a release. Added Miller, “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 — who has a family history of breast cancer — has always been vigilant about self-exams, and asked her doctor for a mammogram when she felt something might be wrong. After doctors did find a tumor, the mother of two underwent a double mastectomy, and was declared cancer-free in August (her chemotherapy treatments will help ensure the cancer doesn’t come back).

Pickler called Tuesday a “life-changing day,” and Miller made the reasons for shaving her head clear on her Caring Bridge 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,” she wrote. “I’m really not that apprehensive about shaving my head. It is hair and it will grow back.” Catch a behind-the-scenes clip of the women shaving their heads on Tuesday here. What do you think of Pickler’s move? And leave your well-wishes for Miller in the comments below! 

–Kate Hogan

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She’s rocking a shorter do these days, but Kellie Pickler admits she has reason to grow her hair.

“I had my hair really short,” she told reporters recently during a visit to American Idol in Los Angeles. She asked husband Kyle Jacobs, “‘Baby, should I grow my hair out?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, grow it out,’” she shared. “So he likes it long.”

However, the country starlet isn’t always one to listen to others. “He’s still stuck with me regardless,” she joked of possibly cutting her hair short anyway. “He doesn’t care. He’s like, ‘Shave your head if you want.’”

But while she may be adding some hair to her head in the months to come, it sounds like Pickler won’t be picking up any additional tattoos. “I was getting stars for all [my] USO tours,” she explained. “But I figured I’d done so many, I would look like the [American] flag.” Tell us: Do you style your hair for your significant other?

–Reporting by Jessica Wedemeyer

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