The lob has been very popular with celebrities this year, but I’m somewhat tired of seeing famous women cut a couple of inches off their ends and/or remove their extensions and act like it’s a big change. It is for them, and I get the attachment to hair as I still have my long security blanket hair, but it still looks like long hair and it still frames their face the same way. So I have higher hair standards for celebrities than I set for myself (I would be freaking out if I cut my hair more than two inches, kudos to Kaiser for getting a lob) and that’s why I consider it brave when celebrities cut their hair into radically different, much shorter cuts.
We recently saw Nashville’s Claire Bowen cut her too-long no doubt extension-filled hair into a very short pixie cut that was incredibly flattering. Bowen did this to highlight the issue of body image and childhood cancer, and she shared a touching story about how she survived nephroblastoma as a little girl.
Now Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead has cut her hair into a gorgeous short pixie cut, as you can see above. Cohan debuted her look at the Z100 Jingle Ball in NY over the weekend. She went from shoulder length hair to this close cropped cut.
Speculative spoilers for Walking Dead follow
As US Weekly points out, many fans are speculating what this means for Cohan’s character, Maggie, who is pregnant on The Walking Dead with Glenn’s baby. Some people assume this means that Maggie is getting killed off this season. Here are some tweets that US posted along with some random ones I found.
Lauren Cohan's new haircut is gorgeous but I hope Maggie lives because she and Glenn need each other so please. Let it be a change for good
— Zyra Mei Repotente (@dezyrablemee) December 12, 2015
@LaurenCohan Curious, are you done shooting the season?
— GregorioLoco™ (@GregorioLoco) December 13, 2015
@Sis1961S @LaurenCohan I know right ?? She could be bald and still be gorgeous !! Guess they're going with the comic Maggie
— Renee (@reneenee652003) December 13, 2015
GUYS I JUST REALISED SOMETHING, Lauren Cohan got a new haircut a few months ago… MAGGIE IS GOING TO DIE IN THE SEASON FINAL I KNOW SHE IS
— Jamie |-/ (@jlkklo15) March 23, 2015
Without being too revealing, Maggie isn’t the one we have to worry about, if producers are going by the comics. Maggie has short hair in the comics around this time, and this haircut could have any number of explanations. Cohan could wear a wig on the show in future episodes, her character might get her hair cropped on the show (there’s a hairdresser on Walking Dead who is still alive as of the last episode), and Maggie might have taken scissors to her hair for any number of reasons, not least of which would be the inability to take a shower if they have to abandon Alexandria. So this hair may or may not be for her character, who may or may not get axed this season. There’s no reason to freak out and worry about Maggie! As Claire Bowen posted, it’s just hair.
This is Lauren with long hair in October, she looks like a different person with makeup!
Here’s a nice post from Lauren on her work with God’s Love We Deliver. I know about this charity from Amanda Freitag on Chopped, it’s a NYC based service which delivers meals to people who are too sick to leave their homes or cook for themselves.
looking 4a way to give this holiday season? think of @godslovenyc #actnowgetafreehairnet🙂 #thanksforhavingusdavid pic.twitter.com/2Ra8fSFShn
— Lauren Cohan (@LaurenCohan) December 13, 2015
And this is Maggie with short hair from the comics. See, nothing to worry about! (When it comes to Maggie.)
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