Witherspoon took to Instagram recently to share with her fans a childhood photo, revealing that her natural hair color is actually brown.
While you probably know and love Reese Witherspoon as a blonde (she is Elle Woods, after all), that's not her natural hair color. The actress and activist recently posted a childhood photo to Instagram, complete with candy necklace, revealing that her natural hair color is actually brown.
So can you blame us for just assuming she has always had light blonde hair? However, she didn't start out life with Elle Woods' Barbie blonde hair color. It turns out that Witherspoon is actually a natural brunette, and she's just about as shocked at the #TBT reveal as we are.
"Jen's the original bronde," says Canalé, who slowly brought Aniston from her natural brunette to a golden blonde before adding those back-from-the-beach highlights.
Angelina Jolie has had dark hair for most of her film career but was born blonde. Jolie has reportedly said her mother was the first one to dye her hair dark. "My natural color is dark blonde. But when I was 4 or 5, my mother dyed my hair dark brown, and she decided to keep it that way.
Though Miley Cyrus is a natural brunette, for most of us, she's more often associated with the word "blonde." She's been some shade of blonde since she was a teen, from her Hannah Montana days to her recent platinum Endless Summer Vacation era.
The reality star's long-time hairdresser Chris Appleton put Kim's hair back to its brunette roots and posted a video of the unveiling on Christmas Day.
Gwyneth Paltrow
If you had blonde hair as a child, you'll likely look good with blonde hair as an adult. One of Hollywood's most famous blondes, Gwyneth Paltrow, has hair that's naturally much darker than this. She gets her hair colored.
Nicole Kidman
After years of seeing the actress walk the red carpets as an elegant blonde, we've come to think of it as her natural hair color. But behold: She's actually a redhead!
The platinum hair probably won't be sticking around for too long, but regardless, Megan looks as glam when blonde as she does in her natural brunette.
Now you know what is the most common hair colour in the world, but what about the rarest? The rarest natural hair colour is red, which makes up only one to two percent of the global population. You commonly see these hair colours in western and northern areas of Europe, especially Scotland and Ireland.
Bella Thorne has probably dyed her hair every colour of the rainbow at this point in her young life, which would explain why most people don't know that her natural color is actually blonde. The actress shared this baby photo of herself a while ago to prove it — and how freakin' cute was she?
Being naturally blonde is pretty rare.
Only 2 percent of people in the world are natural blondes. (About one in 20 Americans are.) But that doesn't mean it's not popular. One in three women dyes her locks light enough to be considered blonde.
Shakira dyed her hair blonde for years, but the singer's natural hair is a dark black. In 2014, she told Glam Belleza Latina that she preferred her blonde hair.
Pairing the blonde coloring with facial hair in his natural brunette shade, Efron shared his very memorable reason for the look — and it didn't have anything to do with a role. "It's just for life, bro," he reportedly said of the color change.
Emma Roberts has seen a lot of colors atop her head, due in part to the many roles she's played on American Horror Story. Just like her Aunt Julia, Emma's natural hair color actually leans light brown.
Sandra Bullock is no stranger to blonde hair. The natural brunette sported a light shade for her Oscar-winning role in The Blind Side back in 2009.
Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
As someone with naturally dark ash blonde hair, she's in the great position of being able to go darker or lighter without the hair colouring process being too damaging in terms of condition. Renée's warm skin tone means she can easily play around with tones of red for a sweet strawberry blonde finish.
From photos of Lady Gaga before she was famous—back when she went by her birth name, Stefani Germanotta—we can tell that her natural hair isn't the platinum blond that she's famous for. It's actually brunette! Over the course of her career, Gaga has worn endless wigs of all colors.
Angelina Jolie's blonde hair is by far the lightest its been since the '90s, complete with bright, near-platinum money pieces around her face, all accented by some chic layering. The effect is downright transformative, ushering in an entirely new era for the actor-humanitarian.
However, what we were yet to learn back then was that the star had actually been a very successful child actor, rocking her natural brunette curls on the Broadway stage.
She's tried almost every color under the sun, including blue, purple, pink, yellow, platinum blond, and silver, but she always returns to a dark brown color, which is the shade closest to her natural hair color.
Britney's natural hair color is brown and even after becoming the blonde bombshell we know today, the pop star has dabbled with darker hair colors. In 2013, she had a brunette moment with subtle light brown highlights and light layers.