A supportive boyfriend shaved his head in solidarity with his girlfriend whose hair began to fall out because of chemotherapy.

Not only did Riley Nicolay get rid of his hair alongside his high school sweetheart Deidre Sechi but he also fulfilled her wish to become famous.

After being diagnosed with a rare form of a sarcoma with a baseball-sized tumor in her stomach, 18-year-old Deidre joked that she would put a positive spin on her diagnosis by gaining attention by possibly appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show or writing a popular blog about her health battle.

Instead, Riley turned an emotional picture of the two of them into an internet sensation.

Riley, who is also 18-years-old and a freshman at Iowa State University, told ABC News that when his girlfriend's hair began to fall out due to chemotherapy, they both decided to shave off their hair completely.


In keeping with their light-hearted attitudes, they took the drastic step in a relaxed fashion, trying out various hairstyles along the way.

'The mullet was a bit much but with the buzz cut, she looked really good,' he said of Deidre.

The hair loss came after Deidre's first full round of chemotherapy to treat the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.

They took pictures of the entire grooming process, but the one that is garnering the most attention is the final product.

Riley posted a picture of the two of them, who have been dating for three years, looking into one another's eyes after completely shaving their heads.

Since he put it on Reddit early Tuesday, it had accrued more than one million views in 15 hours.

Source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277897/Boyfriend-Riley-Nicolays-heartwarming-tribute-cancer-stricken-high-school-sweetheart-shaves-head.html