Michelle Williams: 'Straight Men Hate My Short Hair' - Is She Right? (PICTURES)

Michelle Williams

The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 04/11/11 16:04 GMT Updated: 04/11/11 18:06 GMT

Michelle Williams has revealed the reason behind her pixie crop hair - it's a tribute to her late love, Heath Ledger.

The actress, who stars in My Week With Marilyn, in cinemas later this month, revealed to Elle magazine: "Men hate my hair."

Williams had her hair cropped while she was in a romance with her Brokeback Mountain co-star Ledger, and has kept it relatively short ever since.

She reveals now: "I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it."

Williams and Ledger got together during the filming of Brokeback Mountain in 2004, and their daughter Matilda was born in 2005.

Ledger died in January 2008 of a prescription drug overdose in New York.

Williams explains now: "I've really grown into it - I feel like myself with short hair. And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years.

"Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends.

"Straight men across the board are not into this hair."

Is Michelle Williams right? Is beauty beyond the realm of women with short hair? Check out our Slideshow of celebrated beauties who have famously gone for the chop, and see if she’s right…


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Michelle Williams has revealed the reason behind her pixie crop hair - it's a tribute to her late love, Heath Ledger. The actress, who stars in My Week With Marilyn, in cinemas later this month, r...
Michelle Williams has revealed the reason behind her pixie crop hair - it's a tribute to her late love, Heath Ledger. The actress, who stars in My Week With Marilyn, in cinemas later this month, r...
 
 
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iLdoRight
Encouraging The Rightest Rightness
09:31 PM on 11/12/2011
Some straight men love females with short hair, especially if it is on the head of a brilliant, right thinking do-right kind of a lady. Some would like that kind of a lady even if she did not have any hair, or breasts or ears and had an extra eye in the middle of her forehead.
11:53 PM on 11/08/2011
Yep, she's right. You have to be incredibly good looking to pull off a short cut.
jazzdad51
Disgusted
04:04 PM on 11/06/2011
My high school girlfriend back in the 60's was nicknamed Twiggy. She was a cutie pie. I can still dig it.
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Nanaama
12:29 PM on 11/06/2011
How long is this woman going to milk her relationship with Heath. At the time of Heath's death the two of them had long been separated, and there was no love lost between them. Heath had a steady girlfriend, and the custody battle between Michelle and Heath was anything but friendly. She is just an opportunist, pretending to be the grieving widow, very disrespectful to Heath's girlfriend.
02:51 PM on 11/07/2011
Exactly. I think it's being proven this Williams person will do ANYTHING to get ahead. Whatever it takes. Those are just facts. Her P.R. Machine will "spin" it all away, but the truth always comes out, eventually.
11:12 AM on 11/06/2011
She knew Heath better then any of us. So if she feels this way there is really no need for making stupid comments about her. Why not comment on this without all the animosity?
02:45 PM on 11/07/2011
"There's no need" for calling Nanaama's a stupid comment, as yours is. Just because people are finally figuring out the TRUTH about how conniving Williams is, that does NOT equal animosity. You are very naive.
Williams had a boyfriend for YEARS before she met Heath Ledger, but saw an opportunity to get ahead. She set her sights on HL to further her career, thus dumping her boyfriend before "Brokeback Mountain" even began. MW throws herself at Ledger, "accidentally-on-purpose" getting pregnant by HIM (funny how no child was produced with the previous boyfriend!). He's 25-26 & suddenly a father by someone he's not in love with but wants to do the right thing...Yet, she already got what she wanted--she's on the "A-list" now, so she's too good for him and doesn't need him anymore. Thus, the custody fights, when she starts to screw with his head and use the baby as a pawn. He didn't stand a chance.
Michelle Williams is still milking Ledger from the grave for publicity and and sympathy, as if we're supposed to believe whatever she does has integrity. For example, her new movie, which is being shoved down our throat as a "true-story" about a week that never happened. She IS an relentless opportunist!
09:15 AM on 11/08/2011
I am awed about how people who are NOT friends and NOT family of ANY Celebrity seem to have figured it out totally, Wow!!! BTW, judging other people without knowing them for REAL is stupid.....gosh......your are so full of yourself it really makes me smile.
10:38 PM on 11/05/2011
And what a lame attempt for publicity! She did it for Ledger? It would be wise for her to shut up about HL.
10:32 PM on 11/05/2011
WHO CARES?
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08:07 PM on 11/05/2011
It just works better on some people than others as do many things. It's hard to generalize because most people do not agree on many things.
06:37 PM on 11/05/2011
no
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gregory57
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04:51 PM on 11/05/2011
Short hair can look great on a woman who has very feminine features. This straight man doesn't find himself attracted to "manly" women.
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Lawyer13
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09:33 AM on 11/05/2011
NO
09:27 AM on 11/05/2011
short hair is sexy on chicks if they do it right
02:05 AM on 11/05/2011
No she is incorrect, I would donate sperm to most of the women in that list.
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montecristo5000
10:52 PM on 11/04/2011
YES SHE IS RIGHT. END OF CONVERSATION.
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the grange gorman
Rachel Corrie is the greatest person since Lennon
09:44 PM on 11/04/2011
Ladies have to be v attractive to carry off short hair.Michelle looks lovely as does Carey Mulligan but Emma Watson is the one i want to sit on my face.