Jada Pinkett Smith is worked up for fall!

On Thursday, Pinkett Smith shared a video on Instagram revealing what she’s trying ahead to this autumn. Within the clip, the Women Journey actress, 51, additionally debuted a daring new look — a head filled with platinum grey hair!

Whereas exhibiting off the brand new do, the Crimson Desk Discuss host let followers know she’s been laborious at work writing her new guide. “Course of … is the whole lot❣️,” she captioned the video. After greeting her 11.4 million followers, Pinkett Smith introduced that her new memoir Worthy comes out on Oct. 17. 

“I wanna begin sharing among the course of with you that it took to jot down this guide,” The Matrix Reloaded expertise started. Subsequent, she admitted that placing her life’s story on paper has been “emotionally taxing” and “actually technical.” 

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Pinkett Smith reiterated her level, including that she needed to share the method that she went by together with her “magnificent” editor Carrie Thornton of Dey Road Books and her co-author Mim. As soon as she gave a particular shout-out to the individuals on her crew who helped make the venture doable, the Scream 2 actress shared much more excellent news. 

“Yesterday, I came upon I’m on the Time‘s most anticipated books for the autumn,” she confessed earlier than naming what different girls she admired made the listing as nicely. Pinkett Smith talked about Little Fires In all places star Carrie Washington, including, “I can’t wait to learn her guide, in addition to Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears.”

“And I’m gonna learn all of these books. So, we now have some good studying this fall, all people,” Pinkett Smith continued, noting that she deliberate to begin sharing some content material from her chapters quickly.

On her Instagram Story, she additionally shared the hyperlink to the Time’s article to have a good time making their studying listing. 

“It’s an journey, a seek for love and self-worth,” Pinkett Smith mentioned of Worthy throughout an unique interview with PEOPLE in June forward of the memoir’s launch. “I feel individuals have made a number of assumptions. And you recognize what? Rightfully so. I’ve to take possession of that, regarding the narrative that I’ve participated in, the falsehoods about myself.”

On Aug. 16, the Set It Off star shared a photograph of her memoir on Instagram saying that it was out there for pre-order. Above the guide was the disclaimer, “Overlook the whole lot you thought you knew.” In the course of the June chat with PEOPLE, Pinkett Smith mentioned she started writing Worthy in December 2021, lengthy earlier than the 2022 Oscars incident involving her husband Will Smith and comic Chris Rock. 

PEOPLE completely revealed that her guide can be launched this fall in October 2023. Worthy guarantees to chronicle “classes discovered in the midst of a troublesome however riveting journey — a rollercoaster trip from the depths of suicidal melancholy to the heights of private rediscovery and the celebration of genuine female energy,” a press launch acknowledged on the time. 

Supporters of the Menace II Society alum may anticipate Pinkett Smith to open up about “her unconventional upbringing in Baltimore — from the kid of two addicts to a promising theatre pupil and a violent interlude as a petty drug seller — adopted by a parallel rise to stardom alongside her shut pal 2 Pac, then falling in love with and marrying Will Smith, and a joyous embrace of motherhood.”