Christina Hendricks covers the new issues of Health Magazine and Rhapsody Mag (the in-house mag of United Airlines). I actually like the photoshoot for Rhapsody – good styling for Christina, right? The Health shoot is boring, so I only included the cover. Christina told Rhapsody that she sort of wants “something horribly tragic to happen” to Joan, her Mad Men character: “A terrible accident or something, because I think that would be interesting.” But in her Health interview, Christina talks about babies. Specially, how she doesn’t really want babies:
Her Mad Men character balances being a partner at the ad firm with raising a baby (whose secret father, viewers know, is silver fox Roger Sterling). Christina Hendricks, however, is content to pamper a furrier friend: her new dog.
“We got a puppy, and that’s my idea of starting a family. People say, ‘Oh, that’s practice for parenting,’ but if it’s practice for anything it’s to be a mom to another puppy,” Hendricks, 38, tells Health in their May issue, on stands April 18.
“We’ve decided that we are not really interested in having children.” She continues: “It’s just very normal for people to say, ‘Well, when you guys have kids …’ And then when I say, ‘Actually, I don’t think we’re going to do that,’ people will say, ‘Oh, you say that now …’ It doesn’t bother me, though. And, you know, there’s a small chance I could change my mind.”
For now, Hendricks is busy bidding farewell to Mad Men‘s Joan, the beautiful former secretary she calls “incredibly blunt” and full of “feminine power.” She has some time to say goodbye: The wildly successful AMC series is splitting its seventh and final season across two years.
Plenty of fans are sure to miss drooling over Joan’s quick wit and celebrated curves — qualities Hendricks’s actor husband, Geoffrey Arend, 36, pegged as potential from the show’s start.
“Whenever we see something about it, he always says, ‘I told you from the beginning. I’m the one who called it first,’” Hendricks told the magazine of her sexy image. “So he just wants a little credit. Really, he’s sweet and he’s happy for me.”
I’m glad Christina has finally come out and said that she doesn’t think she’ll have babies. She was playing lip service to the whole baby thing for a while in interviews, not really going “Full Aniston” but I definitely got the feeling that she wanted people to think that she was up for it. But sometimes you decide, “Eh, maybe I’ll just get a dog instead.” There’s nothing wrong with that. In the past, I’ve thought that I might be up for kids sometimes but at the end of the day… I’d rather just be a dog-mom. That’s my choice. And I hate the subtle (or not-so-subtle) “guilting” of the childfree too – trust women to make their own choices about whether they want to become mothers.
Photos courtesy of Rhapsody, Health.
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