Kate Gosselin's Hairstyle: "Everybody Wants It"
Thursday May 14, 2009
Me? Not so much. The star of "Jon and Kate Plus 8" is an attractive woman, but Kate Gosselin's spiky, punk hairstyle has got to go. Others obviously disagree with me because according to Kate in Entertainment Weekly, "everybody wants" her hairstyle. Kate says her hairstylist gets calls from all across the country about her hair. But this look won't work on everyone, according to Kate. "I have very, very thick hair, so it's not going to work for everybody," she says. "I've seen people come through the book line with thin hair and it just won't work."
So tell me: How do you really, really feel about this 'do?
Photo of Kate Gosselin by David Livingston/Getty Images


This would be a fine haircut for a coconut. The extra length in front would wave attractively in a tropical breeze. Otherwise, it’s completely unfortunate. A reverse mullet. But I hear women often change their hairstyle when experiencing relationship trouble. Maybe she should go in for a good snip.
It’s spiky in the back, long and straight covering her eye on one side and the other side is short and tucked behind her ear. Yeah sure Kate everybody wants your hairstyle. Is she serious? She looks like a fool with her hair. Instead of running around and being on tv maybe she should change her hairstylist and get someone who will bring her up to date instead of being in the past.
you really really don’t want to know what I think of this haircut – your website would be shut down
Her hair style is ridiculous. It’s not cute or trendy by any means. It honestly looks outdated.
She can not be serious!! Has she taken a good look at herself?? Her hairstyle is an abomination and it must be stopped.
Yuck…it’s horrible!
I don’t like her hair… but I’m not going to demean her or her use her current marital problems as a way to poke fun of her. Would she look better with a cut that was so long on one side, short on the other… yes she would. But everyone is entitled to what they like and I think some of the people who commented, maybe might not have nice hair either they just like to pick on someone else.
early mid-life crisis? He’s having one too!
Looks like male Centauri hair from Babylon 5, only they wear their bangs pulled back. And female Centauri wisely shave their heads.
But I learned my lesson when I insulted Centauri hair in the presence of the series creator/writer J. Michael Straczynki. So, Kate, go right ahead and be a young male Centauri with long bangs. I am sure that in purple, you look stunning, just like Londo…
No, I don’t like it. She’s way too old for such a haircut. Maybe on a punk teenager with coloured hair and all that jazz.
It’s adorable! And so’s their family! Only the best for them.
Three words: Sonic the Hedgehog
If she likes it who cares, everyone go look at yourself in the mirror.
I work on college campuses, and I see this haircut all the time. It looks ridiculous on 19 year olds, but at least you can cut them some slack because they don’t know any better…. you’d think her stylist would have talked some sense into her.
Give me a break! She looks ridiculous.
Well hello ugly. That is just wrong…
This hairdo is wrong on so many levels, and unfortunately it IS too many levels. That bit in the front is just hanging out there, the back is waaay too young for her. I can’t believe her stylist let her walk out of the salon like that. Shame!
Poor Kate! I don’t particularly care for her in general, but I most certainly do NOT care for this haircut. I DO like her color, and think a modern, chin length bob, with long layers and side swept bangs (like Taraji P. Henson from Benjamin Button) would completely soften up her look. It would also make her look younger, fresher and much more fashionable. Her current hairdo just seems like a desperate cry for attention.
Love Kate, hate the hairstyle. Her stylist is lying to her. Does this woman have no honest friend? Kate, I am that gal today. The spikes look like a porcupine’s rump and the front dollop of ash colored hair is just bad. It covers up half of a pretty face without any good reason and is decidedly unsexy. It is downright butchy! There.
Grow it to a short bob and during the grow out get with an honest stylist to decide what would look good. Such great hair – what a waste.
The color should also go. Light brown with some summery non ash blonde streaks or a warmer blonde with low lights.
HATE it
Love it – I can’t wear it, but it looks fantastic on Kate!
I really think it’s cute. But not on an adult. My teenaged daughter is punk style and wears it in a longer version with the crown all spikey and it’s 2 different colors with red on top and black under the top layer. On my daughter it’s appropriate and “bad”.
Hmmmm… On an 18 year old maybe .. As long as she think its cute I wonder what she will do when she grows up ….
It looks like a backwards mullet. However, I do like the color, it works well for her.
It looks nice on you, and Kate if you’re happy with it, that’s all that matters.
I liked her hair before she got the short spikey look. I don’t know why anyone would want the new cut. It is rather ugly.
She should go back to the old cut.
It definitely looks like she’s trying to hard. Besides her hair, which I might add looks like she attempted to bring back the Flock of Seagulls look only with a new century twist, she is WAY too tanned. Why is it older women insist on tanning as a way to look younger, a nice healthy just been in the sun glow is one thing, but she’s doing the full on fake-n-bake. The tan combined with her hair just looks wrong, and it’s not like she’s an unattractive woman but she looks like she’s trying to hard.
She looks ridiculous. Who are the idiots who want to look like her? Whoever convinced her to get that monstrosity cut must have hated her.
Grow up Kate, you look like a punk teen crossed with a rooster.
It’s actually kind of fun and punky… the problem is that none of the rest of her style matches with it. The front is lovely, actually very sleek and her hair looks like it is in good condition, it makes me think she should show off the good condition with the rest of her hair. However, back to the rest of her look not being punky… Sharon Osbourne could really rock this look if she wanted to and she is older. It’s about attitude not age.
hey it’s like a man’s hair with bangs. i do not like it!
Hi,
This hair cut looks very creepy! It’s her hair & she can do what she wants, but it’s not for me.
Looks like one of her kids took the scissors to it. I dont like it at all.
I am all for each person expressing themselves the way they want but once you reach a certain age there are limts. This haircut would be great for someone in their teens or early 20’s but it looks silly on a woman of her age. Its one thing to go short to save time, especially for a woman with that many children, but it looks to me like it requires MORE effort than another style might and is not age appropriate. She comes off “kooky” not stylish.
Oh you people are so critical. Kate is as cute as can be and she could wear a paper bag on her head and look good. I for one LOVE this cut. When the wind blows her hair it still looks good. She is a woman who knows what she wants and she obviously likes it. I would wear a shorter version of this and I am 55. She is a trend setter for sure!!!!
Yucks…..Enough said !
I liked her hair better when it was shorter on the earlier days of the show. She also used to be nicer then.
hahaha “me, not so much”
no seriously, someone (ie:Barbara Walters) needs to tell her she looks like a bull dyke
I think Kate’s hairstyle is horrible….just like her attitude.
This hair style is horrendous. I don’t understand why anyone likes the stripey color look. My friend and I call this style: the duck butt
i don’t care for her hair style. but with all that money she has, i’m sure she can afford a decent trendy style. that hairstyle wouldn’t look good on any of us. maybe along the way she can buy herself a new attitude.
It’s a horrible haircut. This woman is out and out delusional. She believes her hairdresser because he’s kissing up to her. I haven’t seen anyone else sporting this haircut so obviously it’s not making a fashion trend anytime soon. And who would want to look like this witch who is exploiting her sixtuplets for all their worth anyway! Just another delusional churchie!
This cut is extremely unfortunate… on anyone and everyone!
It would actually be cute if the back blended in w the front. From the front it looks cute! But it doesnt flow at all, it needs to be blended in! She needs to let that spikey part grow out!
I think she was much cuter with shorter hair but I already see people with her current cut.
Who the heck is it, anyway? Thankfully here in Argentina not every Yankee celebrity wannabe achieves fame. And dear Uncle Sam’s neighbors, she is absolutely unknown here.
Anyway, who cares about her hairdo when her hair is so badly kept (from what I can see in this pic) and with that hair color looks like a straw hat? And not just any straw hat! One that has been used to reap rice in China for the past twenty years.
It looks great on Kate! I think all of you with negative comments need to look in the mirror maybe your hair cut needs revamping.
I think she looks adorable in it. She is so pretty she could wear practically any hair style. Personally, I’d prefer not spiking the back, but I love the look of the front. If it works for her with 8 kids, so be it.
Kste’s hair style works on her and for her. I, however, would not care to have my hair styled that way.
I think Kate’s hair is “okay” but I wouldn’t be caught dead with it! lol If she would trim those bangs to graze her eye instead of past the eye, it probably wouldn’t be so bad.
She has such a pretty face! She would look great with a pixie cut too…
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Kate hair is absolutely fabulous!
I think a teen could get away with this cut seeing how neither really make any sense. Kate does have a pretty face, BUT this style cut definately suits her attitude. Sorry Kate.
Why does everyone have to have the SAME hairstyles? Fashion is supposed to be an expression of freedom but the industrialization of fashion has made it fascist. Is fashion a way to control people? I see women everday who dress exactly the same. Maybe we should carry little red books ( purses ) as well. Anyone who carries a white or black purse will be ridiculed and laughed at. I can see the headline now: “little white purse on so and so HAS GOT TO GO!
Haircut by “Edward Scissorhands”…
It’s her hair, she can wear it how she wants. We all change our hairstyles over time, so she will get another one soon, which we will like or not like. There’s bigger issues in this world. I didn’t even comb mine today, since I just had surgery and feel awful. Who cares? Not me, not my husband. If I were a celebrity, I still wouldn’t care, because I am an individual, with a freedom of choice.
well i have always believed that the glory of a woman is her long hair.So i dont really like short hair on a woman .
I can’t stand her, and her hair makes me dislike her even more. Worst soccer mom hair ever! She would look so much better with a long bob.
I have had this haircut since 2000, but with shorter bangs in the front. All I can say is that I love it because it works for my hair and is so easy to style-short spikey pieces on the top give my face length which I need. However I will say some people just do not like it and make fun of me. Why is it always the naysayers who are seemingly louder than anyone else?
Well – you would think I know better. You would think we all know better. Who the hell cares what anyone thinks about Kate’s hairdo? Much less spend a minute of our precious lives typing it onto a website. Focus people – and get some manners. If you can’t say something nice – then just grow up. Grow up and get a life.
It’s like a reverse mullet!
I absolutely love her haircut, I think it is incredibly flattering on her and I admire women who wear their hair to please themselves, not others. I also think Jon is a complete idiot, who is immature and still embracing his “frat boy” mentality. If he didn’t want to be in for the long-haul, why did he go along with the fertility treatments? Go Kate!!!!!
Looks like she just got out of bed and forgot to comb the back. Thumbs down.
LMAO @ the comment: “Three words: Sonic the Hedgehog “
I really like her hair. It is original and fun. Good for her!
I love Kate’s hairstyle! from the nbr of negative comments, i would say alot of old fogies are reading this website. get with it ladies.
I really like the cut and style! I’m thinking of trying it myself. It’s way to easy, it seems, for some to be so judgmental on a haircut or style. No one stays a teen forever, so if you’re calling a cut or style a definition of age then you’re really limiting your own self later because as long as you’re alive you WILL age.
Hello, yes I just LOVE Kates hairstyle as she is adorable. Its VERY stylish, versatile, great highlights and makes her look like a fun person. I cannot believe some of the negative comments as you are either Old foggies or jealous of how attractive she is. I also have the same style and have had MANY compliments even from teachers at my daughters school, some of these teachers are older as well. Keep up the good work, Kate.
That is truly one of the nastiest hairstyles I’ve ever seen, which is saying something. It’s nice that she thinks of herself as some type of trend-setter, but it seems more women would rather throw themselves into a volcano than have it on their head.
Honestly, though, it probably wouldn’t be as hideous or irritating if it were on a woman with a modicum of warmth or grace.
Okay. You got me. I am insanely jealous of Kate; her youth, her beauty, her style and her dough. By all means, she should keep the hairstyle, the high-heeled wedge shoes, the low-cut tops and the short denim skirt! They really suit her personality. I can see she is finding the REAL Kate and showing the world what she is like behind that beautiful face. As for Jon, he is just becoming the “bad boy” that Kate said she always liked. That, in her own words, is what first attracted her to him. Don’t women marry men and then try to change them? Kate gave it a go and wound up with a sad sack who longed to be a boy again. That is an old story that plays out over and over in life. Keep it up Kate and you will bring joy to me and those like me.
Yuk. I don’t know if she wears it just to be different. My daughter jokes that it’s like a backwards mullet. Short in the back and long in the front.
have you ever noticed that women only talk bad about people they are secretly jealous of?
I think the new hairdo kate has is really cute,have one myself. It all boils down to jealousy,as long as she like and deals with it everyday and her children why should anyone else care how she gets her hair done. People need to tend to their own lives and what matters and leave kate live her life how she pleases.
In my part of the country this haircut is called the Dike Spike. No one gets this cut unless they are lesbian and wants the world to know it.
I think it’s a very cute hairstyle. In fact, I’m working toward it! My hair is also very thick, and I need a cut that won’t require much styling…GO KATE!
I love Kate’s hair and in fact I cut my hair the same way. So easy when your kid(s) only give you X ammount of time to get ready in the morning. It’s easy and quick to do and it’s stylish. I think most of you are just plain jelous. I wish Kate all the best for her and her family and I think the show would be so much better without Jon.
I love Kate’s hair..she is adorable!
The tabloids need to stop bashing her. Jon is the jerk in this relationship…sure she can a bit overbearing and controlling…but somebody has to be the adult in this family and it certainly ain’t Jon.
She is trying hard and she is doing a great job with all those little ones. Give the girl a break already!!!
i actually cut my own hair like this in high school, that was in the 60’s oooh, it takes forever to grow out normal LOOKING!! TOO FAD FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO HAVE THE CLASSIC STYLE!!
You guys are retarded, she looks great, it’s very fashionable. Just because you see the one style, with this style you can style the front in totally different ways, you guys have know style get a life..
Betty is right this is called the Dyke Spike and has been around for ages, she should fire her hairsylist
I love that style, I think Kate wears it well.
hi iam ashley iam a big fan and i really like your hair and i really want it but i have thin hair and people keeping say it will not work for me but i do not care i love your hair and people always tell me u do not like jon and kate plus 8 but i do so that is why i want this hair cut
and if u get this please talk soon bcause iam getting it done tommrow love you as a friend your fan ashley
Please don’t tell her it looks good will make you ego even bigger than it already is. Kate you are a piece of work, you used to have hairdresser now you have a stylist!! You used to have a house that was to small now you have a house that you are hardly in. Katie I am sure you don’t read the insulting comments your ‘assistant’ will show you the good ones to look at.By the way I hate your hair
Oooooh So, Kate, yet again, is being an attention whore. Kate when does it end with you???? Are you really that full of yourself? This hair did NOT by any means on that group from the 80’s….Flock of Seagulls….
Ha ha ha ha Kate has ….Flock of Seagull…. hair. It didn’t work then, it doesn’t work now. Are you really trying to reinvent a hair style that hit the road in 1985 in order to invent yourself????
It is as ugly as she is. Kate you are an attention seeking whore. Do you actually think you can reinvent something that died with 1985 and the band “A Flock of Seagulls”?
Look at yourself. Are you really that desperate for attention??? you are the Vanilla Ice of the hairstyle world.
I have read some comments and A LOT of them are based on her as a person mom and celebrity…and most of you with the negitivity is probably and average mom with a bad marriage that thinks sweatpants and ponytails are HOT…news flash jealousy is a terrible sickness and I wish you well. As for her hair, its cute..unique and can be dressy, sexy, or good for just being around the house and being a mom to 8 children. I’m sure most of you a very judgemental for the things she has because you don’t…maybe you should take a look in the mirror at yourself!
Bad at least the front could’ve been blended with the back. If it was razored in it would look much better. It looks like two different haircuts-GOD AWFUL!
It is one hot mess. both the hair and the life. Kate get off the TV and start being a Mom again. Maybe if you where raising your children rather than nanny’s cooks and baby sitters I would think that your hair was a way to make it easier to care for your family and still look nice. Since you don’t really parent.( between the baby sitters that live in the help with laundry and cleaning that has been going on since the baby’s where born)I would not use that as an excuse. I have watched the Duggers occasionally and she has long hair that needs more care than Kate’s rooster tail!!!
I actually have the same haircut as Kate’s but I’ve had mine like this for over 4 years. I’m not sure what she’s saying about the thin hair – I have thin hair and the reason I keep it this way is because my hair won’t do much else!!! I don’t like the hair cut on Kate because – 1) it’s a younger cut (I’m much younger than her) and 2) she needs to have a darker color with high or low lights. My hair is a deep red with lighter (not totally blonde) highlights.
Her comment that everyone wants her hair is absurd and egoistical. She is not the next Victoria Beckham.
I am a hairdresser, have been for twenty years. I own two shops.I have Kates hairstyle, and love it. It kind of an eightys style with a twist. (the spike in the back. As far as what one woman referred to as the stripes, that is called a frost, and is very popular right now.
Ladies, get a life. This woman has eight kids. She needs a style that is easy and this is. Stop picking her apart. I would only hope that I looked that good with her schedule. Kind of makes me wonder what your hair looks like!!
I love Kate’s hair style…I have it myself. I think that some of the people leaving these comments are just rude. Lets put you guys on national t.v and try to pick you apart. Kate is a beautiful woman and she could pull off any hair style.
I can’t believe how rude so many of U are. I love Kate & her hair (my husband says it’s very spunky!! (:). While obviously not perfect ~ Kate is an amazing lady. I’m sure she’s made mistakes, but overall she is a wonderful Mother, and person in general ~ I just don’t think there’s that many people out there that could handle all that she has to deal with. U go Kate!! Kudos for U for being such a strong woman & for being able to rock the short & spiky!!! (: Me & My Family pray for U & Ur Family all the time ~ We just could not imagine going thru all that Y’all have gone thru. We hope & pray that this will end up making each one of U stronger & closer to God…..
LOVE IT!!!