It looks like Kylie Minogue's battle with the cancer has already got a winner: the singer herself. As first sign that her recovery from breast cancer is going well, her hair is beginning to grow back.

The beautiful singer lost her hair after having chemotherapy sessions, as part of cancer treatment last year. The mignon beauty used to cover her baldness with headscarves no matter where she was going. Now, even if she still uses the scarves, the 37-year-old Australian singer is often taking them off in private to reveal her new short, straight, spiky hair.

"Kylie is not at all vain and understood why she lost her hair - but that has made its return all the sweeter. She had been told it might grow back curlier, as happens with some patients after chemo, so she's delighted that it's so straight. She's been through so much it feels a breath of fresh air to think about things like her hair again," a friend of the diva said for Britain's "Sunday Mirror" newspaper.

Kylie, who is dating French actor Olivier Martinez, underwent six months of chemotherapy at the Institute Gustave-Roussy in Paris and she completed her last course of radiotherapy just nine days ago.