Jada Pinkett Smith says Willow Smith 'made' her shave off her hair: 'It was time to let go'

• Jada Pinkett Smith debuted her newly shaved head on Instagram on Monday.
• The actress said that her daughter, Willow Smith, convinced her to make the drastic change.
• "Willow made me do it because it was time to let go," Pinkett Smith wrote.

Jada Pinkett Smith showed off her newly shaved head and said that her daughter, Willow Smith, inspired the new look.

"Willow made me do it because it was time to let go BUT … my 50's are bout to be Divinely lit with this shed," Pinkett Smith, who's turning 50 in September, captioned a post shared on Instagram on Monday.

The post included a screenshot of a photo of the mother-daughter duo that was shared earlier in the day by Smith, plus a video of Pinkett Smith showing different angles of her new style.

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The "Gotham" alum's friends and followers on Instagram praised the style.

Lena Waithe called it "perfection" and Jenna Dewan wrote, "The most stunning inside and out."

"You are DIVINE," Smith wrote.

Smith shared the first look of the drastic hair change in a filtered photo that showed her and her mother with matching shaved heads.

"a gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return," she captioned the post.

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Having a shaved head might be new to Pinkett Smith, but her daughter has previously rocked the same look.

Smith shaved her head in 2020 after concluding a 24-hour exhibit with Tyler Cole, which was tied to the release of their joint album called "The Anxiety."

The "Transparent Soul" singer first shaved off her hair in an act of defiance following the success of her 2010 song, "Whip My Hair."

On previous episodes of their hit talk show "Red Table Talk," the Smith family spoke candidly about the musician's decision to cut her hair off at 11 years old.

Will Smith, her father, admitted that his strict parenting style pushed Willow to her limit.

On another episode of "RTT," Pinkett Smith recalled being "hardcore" mom-shamed when Smith cut her hair off.

But the actress said that witnessing Willow's reaction when she shaved her head helped her cope with the "firestorm" of backlash.

"If they could have seen this child's expression of freedom looking at her hair falling to the ground ... me as a mom, looking at that, experiencing that with her, there is nothing that anyone could say to me to tell me that it was wrong. Not one person, because I was there," Pinkett Smith said.

"I was looking at her. I saw her face. I knew the journey that she and I took together to get to that point," the actress added. "So it didn't really matter what anybody said."