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Mad Men star January Jones – single mom to 3-year-old son Xander – covers the May issue of Marie Claire U.K. and opens up about taking placenta pills, her thoughts on marriage, and her childhood crush.

On consuming placenta pills to help combat postpartum depression: “Whenever I felt down, I would take a placenta vitamin and feel better. I didn’t have a fork and knife and eat it like a steak, I took it with my vitamin C and B12. I don’t know if they were a placebo, but they made me feel better. People act like I’m doing some kind of witchcraft.”

On marriage and kids: “I think when I was younger I was keen on having marriage, kids and all that. But as I got into my late twenties and early thirties, all my ideals shifted and having a document to prove love wasn’t really important to me. It’s the relationships that were important, and I still think that way. I mean, if someone came along and was obsessed with marrying me, I would think about that. But growing up, all my family was married and never really got divorced, so marriage was a big deal, it was something you definitely did, so it’s not that I’m afraid of it. I just don’t need the tax write-off.”

On her career: “I have yet to feel I can make a living from this. I still feel like they are going to find me out and I won’t be able to support my family in five or ten years. There is this insecurity, because this is the job where you put yourself out there to be judged, so we kind of ask for that insecurity.”

On her childhood crush Ethan Hawke: “My biggest crush when I was a little girl,” she recalled, noting she fell in love after watching White Fang. “I was weeping and I felt utterly powerless. I wanted to have that power to make people cry or laugh. I just thought that was such a cool thing.”

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