Lupita Nyong’o debuted a new hairdo on Instagram, and admirers couldn’t get enough of her daring new bald appearance.
The actress, 40, presented a totally shaven head to her fans by posting a photo on her social media account.
Smiling for the camera, the Black Panther star was glowing as she snapped a picture of her fresh hair-do and captioned the upload with a Wakanda reference: ‘Happy without hair! (Application for the Dora Milaje submitted!) [sic]’.
Fans flocked to the comments section to complement the A-lister and thank her for sharing her current fashion.
One wrote: ‘You just gave me more confidence to accept and embrace my current situation [sic].’
While another said: ‘Stunning no matter what,’ and a separate social media user typed: ‘And beautiful, not everyone can were it like a crown [sic].’
She spoke with Good Morning America in November on how the group was dealing with the loss of their co-star Chadwick Boseman in 2020.
She said: ‘When someone like that passes away, it has an effect on everyone around them, uh, and so we see how different characters are dealing in different ways.
‘Nakia is a little bit more advanced in the stages of grief than I was, so it was therapeutic to get through my grief.
‘I would say it was hollow… It was very evident that he was missing, and we were all feeling it but also, we had each other.
‘It was good to be making this with a bunch of people who knew him, who, who had experienced his light and his love, and so we could commiserate and, and really lean on each other in the process.’