Mariska Hargitay's On-Trend Coquette Hair Bow Is a Sweet Nod to Late Mom Jayne Mansfield

Mar. 15, 2025

Mariska Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield.Photo:Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images; Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images; Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Mariska Hargitayis all tied up in the ribbon trend, thanks to one special person.

For her appearance onTodayon Thursday, theLaw & Order: SVUstar, 59, wore a black ribbon in her curled half-up hairstyle. She teamed the look with a tuxedo-style outfit.

“Well can I tell you who my inspo is?” she told cohostsHoda KotbandSavannah Guthrie, who also wore a tiny white ribbon in her curls.

“So I just found this photo of my mother when she was 8 years old and I brought it today,” she explained, as a childhood photo of Mansfield with two bows in her pigtails appeared on the screen. “Look at her bows! And it just undid me, this photo of this little precious girl. I was like, ‘You are my inspiration.'”

Hargitay credited Guthrie for her look too — “You’re also my inspiration because I saw your bows!” she gushed — before the two tried to rope Kotb into wearing the style.

The phrase resonated with Guthrie who shared a video of her and Hargitay repeating it together. “Bowheads of the world unite,” she captained the post.

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Mansfield, bombshell Hollywood screen siren of the 1950s and 1960s, was killed in a car accident in 1967 at age 34. Hargitay, who was 3 at the time, was in the backseat with her two siblings, who also survived the accident.

“The wayI’ve lived with lossis to lean into it,” she told PEOPLE in 2018 in a candid interview about dealing with her mother’s death. “I’m not saying it’s easy, and it certainly hasn’t been for me. There’s been a lot of darkness. But on the other side, things can be so bright.”

“Someone once said about [remembering] my mother: ‘All you have to do is look in the mirror,’ ” she shared. “She’s with me still.”

source: people.com