Cameron Diaz shocked onlookers when she stepped out with a bald head in Santa Monica, California.

However, fans can breathe a sigh of relief, for unlike Demi Moore [Images] and Natalie Portman [Images], the perky actress has not shaved her head, but was only wearing a bald cap.

The 35-year old star plays a mother who shaves her head to support her deathly-ill daughter in the film, My Sister's Keeper, reports the New York Daily News.

Unknown actress Sofia Vassilieva plays Diaz's on-screen daughter who battles leukaemia, while Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin plays her other daughter.

The film is based on Jodi Picoult's best-selling 2004 novel of the same name.

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