Last month, perhaps Esquire magazine realized that waging war on their lad mag competition using Prada male models and tips for a closer shave wasn’t always working, so they raised their game and gave us a holy-smokes photo shoot of seriously underrated dame Mary-Louise Parker. Building on that success of bringing new and interesting hotness to the thinking masses in this post-Megan Fox celeb-verse, they’ve turned the lens this towards vampy redhead Christian Hendricks, who can be seen tempting souls and breaking hearts in AMC’s Mad Men.
Hendricks is stunning, make no mistake, but she’s disarmingly sexy. Intimidating, even. In her shoot, Mary-Louise actually looks like someone who would make you pie, tuck you in and maybe even read you a story. It might be out of Penthouse Forum, but you see where we’re going with this. She comes off as a bit nurturing, a giver. If I went to bed with Christina Hendricks I’d be panicked that anything I consider to be my best stuff would be met with, at the very best, sneering derision, leaving me to dampen my pillow with the sweat of my futile labors and lonely tears. Meanwhile, the next morning I’d wake up wearing a saddle, being told by a crop-wielding ginger bombshell that she needs a ride to work and this was a good chance to see “if you could be good for some damn thing, at least.“
Christina Hendricks in Esquire and at the premiere of Mad Men.
