Life & Style is claiming in this week’s issue that Kate Gosselin has spent $21,000 on her hair – this year. So far. According to their insider, Kate has been going to stylist Ted Gibson (who was responsible for the 22-hour budget-weaving process back in January) to get her hair “did” over and over. The insider claims: “She had her extensions reapplied two weeks ago. Extensions cost $5,000, color costs about $500 and cuts with Ted Gibson are $950- each without tax.” And what about her being a poor single mother who is just doing all of this for her children, so they won’t have to go without… without a mother with a budget weave? Another insider snipes: “Her extensions take six to eight hours!” Life & Style then estimates that Kate has spent 50 hours since January in the hair stylist’s salon. That’s a lot of time and money to look so cheap, right? To look like, on a good day, a Real Housewife reject.

Speaking of Kate spending her millions of dollars on crap she doesn’t need, Us Weekly is calling Kate out on what they see as her “botched Botox job”. They threw up a side-by-side before and after photos which they claim shows Kate’s botched Botox – the photos are here. I’m sorry, we don’t have access to the photo of Kate’s Botoxy face, because it is really funny, and I do think she got something done. Anyway, Us Weekly got some plastic surgeons to comment on the hideous work:

Kate Gosselin had oddly spiked eyebrows and a noticeably smoother face as she ran errands in Pennsylvania on Monday. The reason? After comparing before and after photos (left), plastic surgeons tell UsMagazine.com the reality mom, 35, had botox treatments gone wrong.

“She looked much better in the earlier photo: great hair, nice smile and a normal brow position,” says Dr. Michael Olding, the chief of The George Washington University’s division of plastic surgery.

In the “after” photo, she “has the typical appearance of Dysport or Botox poorly placed in the space between the brows where frown lies occur,” adds Olding. But because Gosselin didn’t have any injectables put in her forehead, “the lateral part of her brow is elevated in an abnormally high position, which my patients refer to as McDonald’s arches!”

Explains NYC-based Dr. Steven Pearlman, “The center of her eyebrows are dropped and spread, which can happen from Botox treatment of the forehead frown lines.”

Pearlman believes Gosselin may have been injected in the shape of a “V” on her forehead, meaning the muscles near her temple weren’t affected “so they over act, giving this Jack Nicholson type of look! Her upper eyelids look a little hollow, which can be as a result of the brows being pulled upward.”

Gosselin’s surgeon is slammed by ScientificSkin.com owner Dr. Kenneth Beer: “This is a bad injection technique with poor placement. The injections were done in a cookbook pattern with no consideration for her particular anatomy. Her outer brow is too peaked, which gives her a devilish appearance.”

Luckily for Gosselin, the botched Botox “can be corrected by a few injections above her eyebrows to let them drop a bit,” says Dr. Tony Youn. “Or by just waiting a few months for the Botox effects to subside.”

This isn’t Gosselin’s first plastic surgery. Us Weekly has reported the Twist of Kate star consulted her bodyguard, Steve Neild (with whom she has denied having an affair), before undergoing a March 2009 breast enhancement. After delivering sextuplets, she also got a free tummy tuck by Dr. Lawrence Glassman. (A few years later, her estranged husband, Jon, dated the doctor’s 23-year-old daughter, Hailey Glassman.)

[From Us Weekly]

I find it rather sad/funny that Kate Gosselin is trying to desperately to be a “star” or “celebrity” in the more conventional sense. This is a women who has no artistic talent whatsoever – she can’t dance, sing, or act, she can’t find any kind of charm or charisma, and she’s basically a dumb grifter who figured out a way to make money under the guise of “motherhood”. She actually thinks she’s competing on the same level as someone like, say, Megan Fox, or Julia Roberts. She thinks she’s America’s Sweetheart. And America’s Sweetheart has to look good! Hence the Botox, the budget weave, the boob job, and the progressively revealing clothing – she wants attention, she wants to be a “star.” Too bad she has no style or talent or anything to hold our interest other than as a bizarre, random object of ridicule.