diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/58-add-support-for-proxy_headers-on-authentication.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/58-add-support-for-proxy_headers-on-authentication.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a887cb1d47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/58-add-support-for-proxy_headers-on-authentication.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - add ``proxy_headers`` option for authentication on k8s_xxx modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/58).
diff --git a/plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_auth_options.py b/plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_auth_options.py
index d572108a6f..d63fbbc25d 100644
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_auth_options.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/k8s_auth_options.py
@@ -75,6 +75,28 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
     - The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable.
     - Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
     type: str
+  proxy_headers:
+    description:
+    - The Header used for the HTTP proxy.
+    - Documentation can be found here U(https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/urllib3.util.html?highlight=proxy_headers#urllib3.util.make_headers).
+    type: dict
+    version_added: 2.0.0
+    suboptions:
+      proxy_basic_auth:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Colon-separated username:password for proxy basic authentication header.
+        - Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_PROXY_BASIC_AUTH environment.
+      basic_auth:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Colon-separated username:password for basic authentication header.
+        - Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_BASIC_AUTH environment.
+      user_agent:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - String representing the user-agent you want, such as foo/1.0.
+        - Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_USER_AGENT environment.
   persist_config:
     description:
     - Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens.
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/args_common.py b/plugins/module_utils/args_common.py
index fadaf44e66..67c183db74 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/args_common.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/args_common.py
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ def list_dict_str(value):
     raise TypeError
 
 
+AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_SPEC = dict(
+    proxy_basic_auth=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
+    basic_auth=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
+    user_agent=dict(type='str')
+)
+
 AUTH_ARG_SPEC = {
     'kubeconfig': {
         'type': 'path',
@@ -43,6 +49,10 @@ def list_dict_str(value):
     'proxy': {
         'type': 'str',
     },
+    'proxy_headers': {
+        'type': 'dict',
+        'options': AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_SPEC
+    },
     'persist_config': {
         'type': 'bool',
     },
@@ -76,6 +86,7 @@ def list_dict_str(value):
     'cert_file': 'client_cert',
     'key_file': 'client_key',
     'proxy': 'proxy',
+    'proxy_headers': 'proxy_headers',
     'persist_config': 'persist_config',
 }
 
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/common.py b/plugins/module_utils/common.py
index 4474eed3b4..14d13e5c39 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/common.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/common.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
-from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (AUTH_ARG_MAP, AUTH_ARG_SPEC)
+from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.args_common import (AUTH_ARG_MAP, AUTH_ARG_SPEC, AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_SPEC)
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.hashes import generate_hash
 from ansible_collections.kubernetes.core.plugins.module_utils.cache import get_default_cache_id
 
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 
-
 K8S_IMP_ERR = None
 try:
     import kubernetes
@@ -138,6 +137,17 @@ def _raise_or_fail(exc, msg):
             auth[true_name] = module.params.get(arg_name)
         elif arg_name in kwargs and kwargs.get(arg_name) is not None:
             auth[true_name] = kwargs.get(arg_name)
+        elif arg_name == "proxy_headers":
+            # specific case for 'proxy_headers' which is a dictionary
+            proxy_headers = {}
+            for key in AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_SPEC.keys():
+                env_value = os.getenv('K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_{0}'.format(key.upper()), None)
+                if env_value is not None:
+                    if AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_SPEC[key].get('type') == 'bool':
+                        env_value = env_value.lower() not in ['0', 'false', 'no']
+                    proxy_headers[key] = env_value
+            if proxy_headers is not {}:
+                auth[true_name] = proxy_headers
         else:
             env_value = os.getenv('K8S_AUTH_{0}'.format(arg_name.upper()), None) or os.getenv('K8S_AUTH_{0}'.format(true_name.upper()), None)
             if env_value is not None:
@@ -182,6 +192,9 @@ def auth_set(*names):
         if key in AUTH_ARG_MAP.keys() and value is not None:
             if key == 'api_key':
                 setattr(configuration, key, {'authorization': "Bearer {0}".format(value)})
+            elif key == 'proxy_headers':
+                headers = urllib3.util.make_headers(**value)
+                setattr(configuration, key, headers)
             else:
                 setattr(configuration, key, value)