‘Mad Men’ Star Christina Hendricks: Focus On Body ‘Hurt My Feelings’
Are you tired of everyone focusing on women’s figures instead of their talent? Well, then listen to what Christina Hendricks has to say about it!
Christina Hendricks wants to be known for her role as Joan Holloway on AMC’s hit show Mad Men — but to many people, she is best known for her bust size. And she’s not happy about it!
“It kind of hurt my feelings at first,” she tells New York Magazine. “I was working my butt off on the show, and then all anyone was talking about was my body!”
Christina, 34, also says she never noticed that her voluptuous curves were not the norm in a pin-thin Hollywood. ”It might sound silly, but I didn’t realize I was so different. I was just oblivious,” she admits. “Sometimes I would go on an audition and someone would say something like, ‘Girl, you’re refreshing!’ That was it.”
But it’s not just HER bod that Christina hates talking about. Any conversation about body image is a turn-off! “It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth,” she tells New York. “Back when I was modeling, if someone said ‘I’m fasting,’ I would say, ‘Can’t we talk about something else?’”
Christina says that all the attention even makes her self-conscious. “Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous.” But being on a hit show that she loves working on makes any of the unwanted attention worth it!
“We’re really spoiled on Mad Men,” says Christina. “Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing!” —Chloe Melas
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AL GOMA
Posted at 1:45 PM on February 17, 2010
She ought to work her butt off about employing the word “butt” in public. It exudes the lifestyle of
those who waddle in the gutter, not the spotlight.
COMMENT1
Posted at 2:08 PM on February 17, 2010
Wow, are you kidding me…you sound as though you are quite the SNOB!
Roxy
Posted at 6:38 AM on February 17, 2010
Are people joking? Christina Hendricks is GORGEOUS! Every voluptuous curve. She doesn’t need to lose a pound. The last thing this GODDESS needs to do is to look more like the jealous bony assed Hollywood women who make catty remarks about her.
John Zee
Posted at 11:11 AM on February 18, 2010
Al Goma either you are a snob, or an idiot, or some combination of both. She was being interviewed by a gossip rag, and I’m pretty sure if there was a word to describe the interview it would be INFORMAL. As in an interview not requiring formal or pretentious words that make your personal list of acceptable words in the English language for a person to use. Watch out it’s Al Goma, word police, he knows the proper way to speak. You need to get you head out of your ass, or your butt as the case may be. So pay attention here it comes:
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the star…Oscar Wilde
We know what Al is doing while he’s knee deep in sewage like everyone else. He’s complaining about how someone used a word that wasn’t proper enough.
