January Jones, who plays long-suffering housewife Betty Draper in the Emmy award-winning TV drama, says its creator Matthew Weiner agrees – telling female members of the cast to avoid strenuous exercise in order to maintain their curves and avoid muscle definition. The 32-year-old actress says Weiner, anxious to echo the curvier silhouette of the show’s early Sixties era, is as demanding as any magazine editor or fashion designer – but with a difference.
‘He would prefer we didn’t work out and that we eat really well, so we look like healthy women,’ she says.
In an interview with Tatler, January also confesses that she has learned to love the girdle she wears to help her achieve her hourglass looks.
‘It gives you such a nice shape,’ she says.
