Long before Christina Hendricks was blowing us away with her acting chops on Mad Men, she was cutting her teeth as a model.
The 44-year-old actress revealed her former past time in a post to Instagram on Thursday. “Fun fact,” Hendricks wrote alongside a picture of the poster for 1999’s American Beauty. “Wait for it…I used to be a model and sometimes a hand model…. this is my hand and another model’s stomach….proud to be a part if this film in ANY WAY!!!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1fFJFFlt95/?igshid=17tkqum25uiwu
Hendricks fans were delighted to discover the fun fact and were quick to express their glee online. “This is the most incredible fact I have learnt all year,” Instagram user cocorocha wrote. “My mind is blown.”
“Girl you can’t post something like this outta nowhere,” another Instagram user wrote. “OMFGGGG this is cinematic history.” Even Hendricks’ former Mad Men co-stars were surprised. “This is important. How come I didn’t know this,” January Jones wrote. Alison Brie and Ben Feldman echoed her sentiment.
Instagram users weren’t the only ones to express their excitement over the news, either. All over the web, fans of Hendricks chimed in.
“THE HAND IN THE AMERICAN BEAUTY POSTER IS MOTHERFUCKING CHRISTINA HENDRICKS,” one user wrote.
https://twitter.com/colormejorge/status/1164690557043642368
Remember when Christina Hendricks gave Karen Elson a modeling career? https://t.co/y9IkbUi12x
— REPLICVNT (@JarrodT83) August 23, 2019
Christina Hendricks finally created a social media account (IG) and is gifting us with trivia, shocking her #madmen castmates 🤣❤️ pic.twitter.com/w8D9Kt2b0J
— Mad Men Quotes (@MadMenQts) August 23, 2019
I’ve been stanning Christina Hendricks for 10 years and yet I didn’t know this https://t.co/GhdAPbKtFH
— g 𐙚 (@birdiedrapers) August 23, 2019
A few commenters, both on Instagram and Twitter, expressed some degree of confusion over the decision to use two separate models for the shot. “I’m curious, what was wrong with her hand,” evxllin wrote on Instagram. “You have beautiful ones, but that’s SO random lol.”
While some people were busy being shook at the news, others poked fun at the popular actress and her announcement. “But it’s also Christina Hendricks’ foot in all the Tarantino movies,” Twitter user Chris Feil wrote.
But it’s also Christina Hendricks’ foot in all the Tarantino movies.
— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) August 23, 2019
Wait, did we all know this was Christina Hendricks hand pic.twitter.com/CgCnp8ew4L
— Sam Herbst (@smhrbst) August 23, 2019
Christina Hendricks, are you saying this AMERICAN BEAUTY trivia that had been etched into my memory all those years ago is a lie? IMDb, you have failed us all. pic.twitter.com/76rIGOFvyo
— The Rhiannonator 📼 (@NannonHarry) August 23, 2019
We will never look at American Beauty the same again.
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