Christina Hendricks

"Mad Men" Actresses Reluctant to Call Peggy and Joan Feminists

Model Media post by Yoonj Kim on April 14, 2013 - 5:43pm; tagged Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, Joan Holloway, Mad Men, Peggy Olson.

This season, Mad Men set in 1968, a time of powerful and exciting organizing in the U.S. feminist movement—while the fictional Madison Avenue advertising crew scribbles out new taglines for headphones, 1968 was the year feminists took to the streets to protest the Miss America pageant.

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Christina Hendricks Talks Joan, Feminism, and Bitches in the Hollywood Reporter

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on June 7, 2012 - 10:40am; tagged Christina Hendricks, Hollywood, Mad Men.

Calling all Mad Men fans! Christina Hendricks, known to us all as Joan Holloway/Harris, is on the cover of next week's Hollywood Reporter.

Christina Hendricks on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter

Christina Hendricks on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter

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The Ghost Inside Christina Hendricks gets her to sell her limbs for tollbooth money.

Music post by Kelsey Wallace on June 30, 2010 - 12:19pm; tagged Broken Bells, Christina Hendricks, The Ghost Inside.

OK, so this video may have come out last month, but I swear I just noticed it for the first time today (and a quick office poll confirmed that I am not alone). How did this slip under the radar? The first Broken Bells music video and it features Christina Hendricks in a "Ray Bradbury does The Valley of the Dolls" plot that has her selling her android body parts in the hopes of meeting a man on a resort planet? There's a lot going on here.

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Stop calling Joan Holloway fat!

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on January 20, 2010 - 1:31pm; tagged Christina Hendricks, fat phobia, Joan Holloway, Mad Men, wtf?.

If I hear another blogger/author/interviewer comment on Christina Hendricks' weight I might lose it. As if her body (omg BOOBS) wasn't enough of a focus already, now she is being picked apart for her appearance at the Golden Globes the other night. As you may have seen by now, Cathy Horyn fromThe New York Times claimed that "You don't put a big girl in a big dress" and ran this (distorted) photo of Hendricks: