Christina Hendricks gets a lot of attention for her curves – and she’s over it. In a new New York Magazine profile, the gorgeous redhead said that at first, she didn’t even realize she was different than a lot of the skinny waifs in Hollywood. “It might sound silly,” she said, “but I didn’t realize 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.”
Now that Mad Men has put her – and her body – on the map, the comments have grown in number, and in negativity. A New York Times blogger even referred to her as a “big” girl in her Golden Globes coverage. “It kind of hurt my feelings at first,” Christina said of all the attention. “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!”
New York Magazine points out that Christina’s gorgeous figure isn’t really anything new; she looks like many sex symbols of years past (Marilyn Monroe is a common comparison). We can only hope that she’s the leader of a new trend in womanly curves. A few magazines have jumped on board: Glamour has begun to mix models of various sizes into its regular editorial shoots, and a recent issue of V pointed out that clothes—even fashion clothes—can look good on differently sized people.
