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On Wednesday, Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Shannen Doherty took to Instagram to show the six different stages of shaving her head during her ongoing battle with breast cancer.

The 45-year-old actress posted an emotional photo with her mother, Rosa Elizabeth Doherty, at the beginning of the process and showed five more photos in the series, which ended with a new mohawk.

The former Charmed star and her friend, Anne Marie Kortright, who helped to take the photos, documented the process, which looks like it happened at home.

Doherty revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in August, when she filed a lawsuit against Tanner Mainstain, her former business management firm. In the court documents, she alleges that her cancer spread because she wasn't covered by her health insurance. The firm fired Doherty and she says she learned of her cancer when she enrolled in the Screen Actors Guild's insurance last year.

The suit states, "In November 2013, SAG sent the premium invoice to Tanner Mainstain for Plaintiff's medical insurance coverage for the year 2014. However, Defendants ignored it, failed to pay it (without informing Plaintiff) and then promptly terminated their relationship with [Doherty] effective February 7, 2014."

Clearly they're been some tough times for Shannen the past few years. In February, the actress explained on The Dr. Oz Show that she was planning on removing the tumor. "Ultimately, they're just breasts, right? I mean, I love them, they're mine, they're beautiful, but in the grand scheme of things, I would rather be alive, and I would rather grow old with my husband," she said.

Dr. Mehmet Oz later spoke about her health in an interview with Entertainment Tonight explaining, "Shannen was very transparent about what's going on in her breast. She has cancer on one side, it's a big tumor, it has spread to the lymph nodes on that side, but we don't have any evidence that it's gone any farther than that," he said at the time.