Kate’s Hair Through the Years

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August 17, 2008

When renewing her vows to now ex-husband Jon in Hawaii, Kate placed a delicate headband between locks of her blonde highlights.

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April 14, 2009

"Everybody wants it," the reality star (here, at a book signing in Glendale, Calif.) has said of her spikey do. "It's work. I have very, very thick hair, so it's not going to work for everybody. My hairstylist gets calls from all across the country."

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Aug. 10, 2009

The Jon & Kate Plus 8 matriarch showed off a more subtle style of her short 'do when she stopped by FAO Schwarz on a trip to NYC this summer.

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Sept. 15, 2009

Hair ye, hair ye! The mom of eight debuted a radically different hairdo on her second day guest co-hosting ABC's The View. "Isn't it cute?" she said of her wavy look. Hairstylist Lavette Slater called the update "new, fun and whimsical."

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March 4, 2010

In January, she emerged with extensions; the work of celeb hairstylist Ted Gibson, the comped locks normally cost $7000 and required 20 hours in the salon. But sources told Us that Gosselin cried over her new look: "She hates it!...She's afraid people will think she's one of Tiger Woods' bimbos!"

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March 2010

The reason for her makeover: Dancing With the Stars! Although the mom has admitted she "can't dance," she later said her "personality clicked in" for the competition. "I've gotta kill this." (On the March 22 premiere, a judge called her technique "terrible," and she scored in the bottom three.)

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March 10, 2010

She showed off a short bob -- for one day only -- in NYC. "We're taking [the extensions] out and we're not putting them back in until Thursday," stylist Ted Gibson explained March 9. "So she'll have short hair for a day."

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March 17, 2010

Gibson explained that her new, improved extensions feature "three different shades of blonde, a caramel, a beige blond and a little bit of a lighter blonde," and "will last through the whole time she's on [DWTS]."