diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
index eee9bc865357ee..c795a449a5d428 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
@@ -809,6 +809,9 @@ tkinter
   arguments passed by keyword.
   (Contributed by Zhikang Yan in :gh:`126899`.)
 
+* Add default values to the initialization parameters of class
+  :class:`!tkinter.OptionMenu`.
+  (Contributed by Zhikang Yan in :gh:`130356`.)
 
 turtle
 ------
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py b/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
index f6e77973061956..9da99065603dec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ def test_bad_kwarg(self):
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(TclError, r"^unknown option -image$"):
             tkinter.OptionMenu(self.root, None, 'b', image='')
 
+    def test_default_parameters(self):
+        tkinter.OptionMenu(self.root)
+
 @add_configure_tests(IntegerSizeTests, StandardOptionsTests)
 class EntryTest(AbstractWidgetTest, unittest.TestCase):
     _rounds_pixels = (tk_version < (9, 0))
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
index 0baed8b569e40f..3728db95c2882c 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -4180,7 +4180,7 @@ def __call__(self, *args):
 class OptionMenu(Menubutton):
     """OptionMenu which allows the user to select a value from a menu."""
 
-    def __init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, master=None, variable=None, value="", *values, **kwargs):
         """Construct an optionmenu widget with the parent MASTER, with
         the resource textvariable set to VARIABLE, the initially selected
         value VALUE, the other menu values VALUES and an additional
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-02-23-06-49-26.gh-issue-130356._VDYmg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-02-23-06-49-26.gh-issue-130356._VDYmg.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0887630125d276
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-02-23-06-49-26.gh-issue-130356._VDYmg.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add default values to the initialization parameters of class
+:class:`!tkinter.OptionMenu`.