diff --git a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
index 32a99c0a020b2..7ac2e5a988cd8 100644
--- a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
+++ b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
@@ -1913,13 +1913,13 @@ def get_dummies(self, sep="|"):
         Examples
         --------
         >>> pd.Series(['a|b', 'a', 'a|c']).str.get_dummies()
-        a  b  c
+           a  b  c
         0  1  1  0
         1  1  0  0
         2  1  0  1
 
         >>> pd.Series(['a|b', np.nan, 'a|c']).str.get_dummies()
-        a  b  c
+           a  b  c
         0  1  1  0
         1  0  0  0
         2  1  0  1