Heather Mills really needs attention. Badly. Painfully, even. When you’re not married to someone famous anymore but you still crave the limelight, what do you do? Well, if you’re Heather, you chop off all your hair in a piss poor attempt to imitate Victoria Beckham’s surprising crop job from a few months ago. And then when you’re surprised that no one’s even noticed, you go on The Today Show to yak about your vegan charity. Oh, and brag about how awesome your life is. Even though everyone despises you.

It is an age old trick employed by women the world over to show their old flame they have moved on. And it seems Heather Mills is no exception as she showed off a stylish new haircut on a television show. The 40-year-old has chopped off her long locks and is now sporting a chic cropped style and where once it was a mousy blonde shade, she has now opted for a much lighter bottle blonde.

“I’d actually been thinking about cutting my hair for quite a while. I hope now this is a fresh beginning,” she said. The new look comes as Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife bids to raise her profile and that of her charity in the US. She appeared popular American magazine programme The Today Show to promote her vegan charity.

Talking about the divorce she added: ‘It was a very difficult time for everybody involved. We were most importantly trying to protect our daughter and she seems to have come through incredibly well. Everyone I know who has been through a divorce, finds it really, really difficult, I don’t know anyone that didn’t go through a hard time. We just went through it publicly. But things are great, really good.’

She went on to boast about her ‘vegan food push’ where [she] claimed to have donated $1 million (£670,000) of food to children in New York’s rundown Bronx area. ‘I’ve been studying nutrition for a long time now. I am just trying to bring awareness,’ she bragged before adding that she was considering building a food factory in the area to bring in jobs.

[From the Daily Mail]

Thank goodness the good people of New York City have Heather Mills to save us with tofu dogs and quorn chicken substitute. And really, nothing will dramatically change everything in your life and give you a “fresh beginning,” like a haircut. I once chopped off all my locks and woke up as a man in the middle of Russia. It really can create extreme change. I’m glad Heather stumbled upon it. She doesn’t need to do anything like working on herself or going into therapy so she’s not such a raging bitch who’s reviled around the world. A quick trip to the salon and a few snips and she’s as good as new.

Here’s Heather hosting a “healthy cooking day” for the families of the Bronx on Saturday. I really hate to admit it, but these photos make me hate her a teeny, tiny bit less. Almost. Images thanks to WENN.