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Theo Wargo—WireImage/Getty Images by [Karen Mizoguchi/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Karen Mizoguchi/People Contributor Aug 19, 2016 2:16 PM UTC [Keira Knightley](http://www.people.com/people/keira%5Fknightley/) wears wigs not only because she likes to, but also because she has to. While her acting career has allowed her to play a wide-spectrum of characters with varying looks, one thing she did not expect during her nearly 20 years in Hollywood was extremely damaged hair. “I have dyed my hair virtually every color imaginable for different films. It got so bad that my hair literally began to fall out of my head!” Knightley, 31, revealed to [_Instyle UK_](http://www.instyle.co.uk/beauty/news/keira-knightley-beauty-secrets). “So for the past five years I’ve used wigs, which is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to my hair.” And though her natural locks have been recovering, Knightley has had to tackle a new kind of hairstyle, due to the effects of motherhood. “I have naturally crazy, curly hair, and since I’ve had the baby it’s become 10 times thicker. So now I’ve been finding quite a lot of dreadlocks,” she shared. Knightley and husband James Righton [welcomed daughter Edie](http://celebritybabies.people.com/2015/05/26/keira-knightley-welcomes-daughter-james-righton/) in May 2015. _This_ [_article_](http://site.people.com/style/keira-knightley-wigs-my-hair-began-to-fall-out-of-my-head/) _originally appeared on_ [_People_](http://www.people.com/people/0,,,00.html)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4459024/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4459024/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss/"},"headline":"Keira Knightley Reveals She Has Worn Wigs For 5 Years","datePublished":"2016-08-19T14:16:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:11.613Z","description":"She talks about her experience with hair loss","url":"https://time.com/4459024/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57862cf8eb689fb5/6988a2f25f570f76f7b223e3/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karen Mizoguchi/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57862cf8eb689fb5/6988a2f25f570f76f7b223e3/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Keira Knightley on Wearing Wigs","caption":"keira knightley wigs hair loss","creditText":"Theo Wargo—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4459024/keira-knightley-wigs-hair-loss/","name":"Keira Knightley Reveals She Has Worn Wigs For 5 Years"}}]}] ```