Christina Hendricks talks about her curves
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks says she doesn’t know why her body is such a big issue.
The 34-year-old actress said: “It might sound silly, but I didn’t realise I was so different.
“I was just oblivious. Sometimes, I would go on an audition and someone would say something like: ‘Girl, you’re refreshing!’ That was it.”
Hendricks’ figure has got lots of attention since the success of Mad Men, the 1960s-based US TV show, in which she plays secretary Joan Holloway.
But the actress says she wasn’t that comfortable with the comments about her body, even if they were complimentary.
“It kind of hurt my feelings at first. Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious.
“I was working my butt off on the show and then all anyone was talking about was my body.”
The former catalogue model said: “It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Back when I was modelling, if someone said: ‘I’m fasting’, I would say: ‘Can’t we talk about something else?’”
These days, when she’s not heating up the small screen in Mad Men, directors are calling her to play motherly roles.
“The way we dress on Mad Men is so associated with old photographs, with people’s parents and grandparents. In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.”