Christina Hendricks 'Not Really Interested In Having Children'

James White for Health

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.”

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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.”

— Michele Corriston