Bald and Beautiful Celebrities

Shilpa Shetty doesn't want to trade her tressed up look for a bald pate. Here's a look at female celebs who have gone bald

Shilpa Shetty: The Celebrity Big Brother winner sports a bald look for her film The Desire, in which she plays a monk. However, she was unwilling to actually shave her head and her look for the film was created with prosthetics. According to the actress, "Getting the bald look took three hours."

Cameron Diaz: The There's Something About Mary actress, who's known for her blonde tresses, refused to lop them off for My Sister's Keeper. The reason -- the actress didn't want to go bald for just a one-day shoot. Instead, she wore a bald cap to portray a mother who shaves her head in support of her ill daughter.

Natalie Portman: One actress who did actually get tonsured was Natalie Portman, who played Evey in V for Vendetta, which is based on the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name. "I was really excited to get to shave my head.

It's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse," said the actress, adding, "It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl."

Anaitha Nair: Chak De! India Anaitha Nair actress shaved her head for the Nagesh Kukunoor film Aashayein to portray a cancer patient. "Initially it was horrible.

 Some people on the road used to call me takli and I hated that. I lost out on other work because of it. But no regrets," the actress has been quoted as saying.

Britney Spears: After filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in 2006, pop princess Britney Spears went into an emotional downward spiral. Her hard-partying ways with Paris Hilton came in for much scrutiny, especially when she was photographed going commando. In February 2007, she checked herself into rehab in Antigua and checked out less than 24 hours later. She then headed to California, where she shaved her head. For months afterward, she covered up her bald pate with wigs.

Lisa Ray: The model-turned-actress went bald for the Deepa Mehta film Water, in which she played an exiled widow in Varanasi.

When she was diagnosed with cancer a few years later, she had to take the bald route again when she was getting treated for the disease.